Lemonade from lemons

— Photo by AleSpa

From Robert Whitcomb’s “Digital Diary,’’ in GoLocal24.com

This might be the most significant news around here lately. Cambridge-based Synapse Energy Economics has done a study, commissioned by the State of Rhode Island, that concludes that new solar arrays on already-developed land such as parking lots and brownfields could power many, many Rhode Island homes. With malls and some free-standing big-box stores closing, there will be more and more such available space on abandoned parking lots.  And of course there are plenty of flat roofs available. It beats chopping down more trees or building over old farm fields  to make space for more rural solar farms.

To see/hear a video on this big business and environmental opportunity, please hit this link.