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Across the country, growing numbers of storms and floods and fires are cutting off electricity and endangering communities. Solar-powered resilience is playing a key role in keeping communities safe, and key players here in Washington are ramping up new initiatives.

Source: https://www.kuka.com/en-us/industries/solutions-database/2025/12/automating-solar-panel-installation

Amidst a shortage of installers, increasingly heavy panels that can weigh 80 pounds and solar farms with hundreds of thousands of panels, robots are cutting labor costs and increasing speed. While they started out on solar farms, they’re now even going onto rooftops. 

What is Balcony Solar

In the US, the Washington Post observed, 53 million households cannot install rooftop solar because they live in apartments or they are renters. Millions more don’t install it, even if they have a rooftop, because it seems too expensive or too difficult. These people may soon have an alternative that makes solar energy accessible to almost anyone.