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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's not the cost of the panels, it's the cost of the structure to hold them. And the maintenance involved.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

There are solar generating facilities literally everywhere now. To mount them high enough to park under is a miniscule cost difference. There are also already massive parking lots with covers all over the place. We have probably 5,000+ covered parking spaces at the airport in my city, for example