Archive for August, 2022

Largest Rooftop Solar Array In Canada Installed at Edmonton Expo Centre
August 19th, 2022

Via Global News, a report on the largest rooftop solar array in Canada which was installed at Edmonton’s Expo Centre: There are certainly other buildings in Edmonton with rooftop solar panels, but the Expo Centre is certainly the biggest. In fact, when the $5-million project is done, it will be the largest rooftop solar array in the country. […]

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Solar Company Covers Storage Facilities in Solar Panels—Brings Power to 1,400 Homes
August 12th, 2022

Via Good News Network, a report on an innovative use of storage facility roof space to bring power to 1,400 homes: New Jersey’s largest community solar owner and operator had the bright idea to cover storage space with solar panels. The project was seen through to its conclusion, and now an Extra Space Storage site in Neptune, NJ, boats a […]

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Why Putting Solar Canopies on Parking Lots Is a Smart Green Move
August 10th, 2022

Via Yale e360, an article on why placing solar canopies on large parking lots offers a host of advantages — making use of land that is already cleared, producing electricity close to those who need it, and even shading cars: Fly into Orlando, Florida, and you may notice a 22-acre solar power array in the […]

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About This Blog And Its Author
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.”