Construction Today Vol 22 Issue 2 | Page 138

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“ The future pipeline is enormous”: Solar Landscape President Mark Schottinger explains how commercial rooftop solar alleviates America’ s unprecedented energy demands

Solar Landscape is on a mission to make solar America’ s most shovel-ready energy source, and it aims to do so by building projects on commercial and industrial rooftops.

The growth in AI machine learning, data centers, and the electrification of the economy will drive U. S. energy demands to more than double in the next ten years. Our electric grid infrastructure is not prepared for the required transformation.
That’ s why corporations and regulators are increasingly looking to distributed generation( DG) for its deployment speed and grid benefits. DG solar projects can typically be developed and built in 12 to 24 months given faster interconnection times and modular setups.
Once built, these sustainable clean energy projects enable electrical grids to be more resilient, alleviate rate increases and maintain reliable power supplies.
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