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>Acquiring land-use rights, permitting, environmental reviews, and zoning changes for an industrial power plant costs far more than the raw rent.

So the argument against my claim that the government and market has failed if balcony solar is cost effective, is that the government is the problem?



This isn't a government failure. The government is correctly pricing the true cost of industrial land use: the loss of farmland and natural space.

Rooftop solar is cost-effective because it cleverly avoids that cost by using land that's already developed. It's not winning because of bureaucracy, but because it's using a limited resource in a smarter way.




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