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Car parks with space for 80 cars or more are now required by law to be covered with solar panels.
- Parks between 80-400 spaces have 5 years to comply
- Parks with spaces of 400+ have 3 years to comply
This will result in about 11 gigawatts of power.
This should be required everywhere!
@peterdutoit
In places like Houston just shading the cars would save energy so it's a double win.
@peterdutoit Google tells me France requires about 445 terawatt hours of electricity per year. Divided through (365 Γ 24) that results in about 50 gigawatts used, on average, at any point during the day and year.
So 11 GW from car parks would cover almost a quarter of France's power consumption.
Of course these are all averages and power consumption varies wildly between day and night, summer and winter, etc.
But huge if true.
Do those numbers sound about right or did I miscalculate somewhere?
@peterdutoit You can oblige. Who will pay for the construction and operation?