Tesco USA to get 'world's biggest' solar roof

Los Angeles-based Solar Integrated Technologies has struck a deal with British supermarket chain Tesco to build what it says is the world's biggest roof-top solar panel installation.

Solar Integrated said on Friday it had won a $13 million contract to put solar panels on the roof of Tesco USA's new distribution center in Riverside, Calif.

"Our BIPV roofing system will... provide a fifth of the depot's power supply, and save 1,200 tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year," Solar Integrated Chief Executive R. Randall MacEwen said.

"We believe this will be the largest roof-mounted solar installation in the world," he added.

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