No, it's an impractical idea that nobody wanted.

bjelkeman-again 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I did want it. Would have looked great on my quite old house where it is highly impractical to have conventional solar panels, as there is essentially not enough space anywhere to have more than one or two panels in the same location, and I need new tiles soon anyway.

I think it turns out it was announced too early and attempted to scale before it was ready (turns out it won't be ready at all in this iteration).

	▲	delecti 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> not enough space anywhere to have more than one or two panels in the same location That isn't necessarily a downside though. By having panels on a variety of orientations on your roof, you can spread out the generation through the day and mitigate a bit of the duck curve.

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KeplerBoy 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Works perfectly fine in Europe.

https://www.prefa.at/produkt-katalog/solarsysteme/solardachp...

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JKCalhoun 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Interesting. They look great on a single-surface roof with 90° edges. It seems that as soon as your roof deviates from that the aesthetics begin to trend toward conventional PV panels (which of course also do not accommodate more complex roof profiles).

	▲	rsynnott 14 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Bonkers roof profiles are primarily and American thing, to be honest; not that they’re totally non-existent elsewhere, but the super-complex roof on a detached house is very American.