Providing a reliable and resilient power supply is crucial to economic and social development . Furthermore, there are co-benefits from the use of low carbon energy systems . For example, solar-charged street lamps and household lighting gives reliable nighttime lighting, providing safety, security and resilience to disruption of network power supplies . At larger scales, deploying solar power on building roofs reduces energy demand for cooling by 12% and lowers the urban heat island, and thereby has health benefits . In the USA, construction of solar panels over 200 million parking spaces would generate a quarter of the country's electricity supply .
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