Solar Car Parks Won’t Clean Up the Grid: David Fickling

If only we could get reliable, cheap, clean energy without annoying anyone, anywhere. South Korea and France think they have the solution. Don’t get too excited about it.

The idea is to put our new power generation infrastructure in places that we already dislike. Car parks seem the perfect solution.

The government of President Lee Jae Myung is promising to make erecting solar panels on parking lots a central plank of his plan to reduce South Korea’s dependence on imported fossil fuels — a troubling vulnerability after the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Since November, all but the smallest public ...