Changing the roofscape

As all you hundreds of thousands of followers of this blog know, I wonder why the rooftops of eco-friendly Stockholm aren’t littered with solar panels.

I have now found out why. We already knew the things are forbiddingly expensive (at least half a million kronor for a good-size solar patch), so they have been subsidized by the government by as much as 70 percent. But only for public institutions.

Now Dagens Nyheter tells me the rules are being changed to include businesses and individuals, too. So already next month, Swedes will hopefully be able to apply for state funds of up to two million kronor, but no more than 60 percent of the total cost.

I write “hopefully” because there is one last obstacle: Sweden has to run it by Brussels first ...