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Solar panels on your car shelter

Written by Olivier Adam on Wednesday, 20 May 2009 14:12

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Solar Panel shelterIn some countries in the world, the sun shines enough to see some good benefits from solar panels. Normally, solar panels are installed on the roof of the house which can feed some quite interesting energy savings all year long. The problem is that sometimes, the roof orientation is not optimal to capture the most solar energy. Also, some roofs are made of materials that are not appropriate to install solar panels like clay roofing tiles. A French company came up with a car shelter with solar panels on the top. This makes it very easy to deploy and offer some benefits in addition of providing free, clean energy. Savings can be up to 2000 euros ($2700 US) if the shelter is deployed in a sunny area.