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Thinking of Adding Rooftop Solar? Here’s What Distributors Should Know

Examine the potential rooftop solar has for distributors' ROI, and review a case study of a small distributor getting results from recent installations.

May 21, 2024

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For distributors, any capital project has to follow through with its return on investment, and some have found adding rooftop solar to their facilities is a worthy pursuit. The warehouses and distribution centers these companies operate are naturally ideal candidates for solar installations. They’re typically big, boxy, flat, open and unobstructed from sunlight. Environmental advocacy organization Environment America calculated that, as of 2022, the U.S. has more than 450,000 medium and large warehouses that cover over 16 billion square feet of space, and those figures are rapidly expanding.…

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