Blogs & Ecology

photo: SCE

You may not like big box buildings from an aesthetic perspective--I hate to say it but I’d prefer a whole city of Brutalist concrete architecture over a bunch of steel framed big boxes--but they sure do have a lot of roof surface area suitable for solar power.

Southern California Edison is taking advantage of that and is installing 150 rooftops with solar panels, the first of which have just been completed. Eventually the project will cover two square miles of roof space with solar panels, for a com...