Why don’t Coastal Georgia warehouses have solar on their roofs?

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Coastal Georgia boasts an abundance of sunshine and a rapidly growing abundance of warehouses. But rarely do these two combine to produce electricity from rooftop solar. 

There’s so few solar arrays on warehouses here, in fact, that when the nonprofit Environment America produced a report last spring extolling the benefits of what it deemed a “no brainer” placement of solar panels atop warehouses, the statewide affiliate, Environment Georgia, didn’t participate in the launch. 

“I didn’t actually send it out because I couldn’t find a really good example,” said Jennette Gayer, the Georgia state director.