Elon Musk Envisions Solar Roofs Powering Homes
August 11th, 2016

Via NBC News, a report on Elon Musk’s vision for rooftops:

If Elon Musk has his way, a roof entirely made of solar-gathering materials could one day be used to power homes.

Musk, who is chairman of the clean energy company SolarCity, explained how a complete solar roof could play a “fundamental part of achieving a differentiated product strategy,” as opposed to placing solar cells on roofs.

“It’s not a thing on the roof, it’s the roof,” Musk said on a SolarCity conference call with analysts Tuesday afternoon.

The complete solar roof could potentially open up a new market of millions of customers in the United States, SolarCity executives said.

Tesla is currently awaiting shareholder approval on its proposed acquisition of SolarCity in exchange for a $2.6 billion stock offer.

Musk, who is CEO of Tesla, has spoken about his vision to unite both companies in their quest to provide clean energy solutions. In addition to automobiles, Tesla also makes a Powerwall home battery that can be powered by solar energy.

The fact that Tesla and SolarCity are separate “is largely an accident of history,” Musk wrote in his “Master Plan, Part Deux.”

“Now that Tesla is ready to scale Powerwall and SolarCity is ready to provide highly differentiated solar, the time has come to bring them together,” he said.


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As potential uses for building and parking lot roofspace continue to grow, unique opportunities to understand and profit from this trend will emerge. Roof Options is committed to tracking the evolving uses of roof estate – spanning solar power, rainwater harvesting, wind power, gardens & farms, “cooling” sites, advertising, apiculture, and telecom transmission platforms – to help unlock the nascent, complex, and expanding roofspace asset class.

Educated at Yale University (Bachelor of Arts - History) and Harvard (Master in Public Policy - International Development), Monty Simus has held a lifelong interest in environmental and conservation issues, primarily as they relate to freshwater scarcity, renewable energy, and national park policy. Working from a water-scarce base in Las Vegas with his wife and son, he is the founder of Water Politics, an organization dedicated to the identification and analysis of geopolitical water issues arising from the world’s growing and vast water deficits, and is also a co-founder of SmartMarkets, an eco-preneurial venture that applies web 2.0 technology and online social networking innovations to motivate energy & water conservation. He previously worked for an independent power producer in Central Asia; co-authored an article appearing in the Summer 2010 issue of the Tulane Environmental Law Journal, titled: “The Water Ethic: The Inexorable Birth Of A Certain Alienable Right”; and authored an article appearing in the inaugural issue of Johns Hopkins University's Global Water Magazine in July 2010 titled: “H2Own: The Water Ethic and an Equitable Market for the Exchange of Individual Water Efficiency Credits.”