I snapped a picture a few months ago and never got around to posting it until now.

It may surprise many, how many commercial businesses, chain stores and mall already have their roofs covered with solar panels.

Future Park mall area, Rangsit, and so many more ... 👍

We even have a few Solar farms near us, that I know about, and the other electric producing facility, is natural gas,

Sam Roi Yot, PKK ... floating solar farm ... way too cool

Bang Saphan, PKK

Kui Buri, PKK

Thailand, and much of ASEAN, has loads of solar generation online but not much in the way of grid-based energy storage to allow that generated energy to be time-shifted.

Of course, the malls etc. that we see covered in panels are actually using most of their generation during the day as that's their peak airconditioning period.

Off-peak rates are much lower that peak, which make cost justification for batteries a much heavier lift.

With our service upgrade, we're getting a time of use (TOU) meter, and I should know in a few months what the pay-back is on an installation with and without batteries.

Our old house the bill was 5-7K a month, but the new house is bigger and has a lot of windows.