But I do like the idea of installing solar on businesses. To be fair, it is a thing, it is happening. But uptake is a lot lower than you might expect. Especially for things like office buildings where the owner is not being charged for power, and the occupiers paying for power aren't the owners.

If we are looking at this from a national power supply point of view, there's likely a middle ground where you can pay people near the current spot price for power, but you're gonna have to increase daily charges for maintaining the lines as currently this is subsidized through charging more for usage (I guess the idea is higher users should pay more for line maintenance, which I can understand as well).

[–] NoRamyunForYou 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah definitely. I used to live in the middle of Takapuna, and I counted maybe one office building with Solar Panels on their roof :(

[–] sortofblue 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

France passed a law last year that all carparks that hold more than 60 cars must have solar installed overhead and I'm so hoping that happens here. Parking out of the sun all day would be brilliant, since we seem to love big sprawling ground floor carparks.

Change is happening, just not fast enough for NZ to catch on.

[–] Dave 2 points 1 year ago

That's cool! I feel like in NZ we are more likely to use incentives rather than just making a law that people have to do the things we want them to.