The San Diego Unified School District has just worked out a great deal with Solar Integrated Technologies to get new roofs on many of their schools that are integral solar panels!  So each school not only gets a new roof for free, but they also get to buy the power from that roof for less than what they would pay the power company.  Everybody wins!  I just can’t believe what a great partnership this is.  We all benefit.  Yow!  If this technology could spread to all new roofing projects in the country, just imagine how quickly we could be producing massive amounts of power that don’t rely on fossil fuels and don’t put more carbon into the atmosphere.

Read the full article here:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/louv/20050322-9999-lz1e22louv.html 

I’m sure that it will take a while to get production up to the level I imagine, and of course most builders will have to buy the roofing material, but you have to buy a roof anyway, why not make it one that will produce energy for you?  There is certainly no shortage of available roof space for panels.