>Similarly, unless you hammer the private sector with mandates it'll never build solar panels atop parking lots? Clearly not coz it happens (profitably) outsid

>Similarly, unless you hammer the private sector with mandates it'll never build solar panels atop parking lots? Clearly not coz it happens (profitably) outside of France without mandates. >I do question how much the needle is going to move by mandating solar panels on parking lots What data do you have that leads you to suppose it will make zero difference? A quick google suggests that if all the Walmarts alone in the US did this it would provide 11GW. 11GW is coincidentally how much incoming nuclear capacity France has under construction (not enough to replace capacity going offline).