Aesthetics and solar power

Making those black panels palatable

The writer of this substack happens to like architecture. Integrating the black solar panels into a new or existing aesthetic has been problematic. Case in point Amsterdam, whose historic center is a protected conservation area, where it has been deemed that solar panels ruin the traditional landscape and are therefore not permitted. There's good news on this front*:* a new kind of solar panel that may make its integration less problematic and more accessible to architects and enhance the beauty of buildings…