Aiding the Dutch Energy Transition

The Netherlands is a country with one of the highest population densities in the world and, as a consequence, it has constrained availability of surfaces and land for all kinds of purpose, including the deployment of rooftop solar power generators. Residential PV could really help the country implement its challenging energy transition, which is to reach its almost impossible RES targets for 2020.
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Dutch citizens and homeowners seem not to have been discouraged by the challenges ahead for the country’s energy transition, because the number of residential rooftop PV projects developed and installed under the country’s net metering scheme has risen tremendously over the past few years. Sometimes, however – particularly atop the peculiar rooftops of a city …

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