New rules - easier to implement than mentality changes - will however demand a built-in solar panel capability per presumptive building occupier.
One must consider always the action of the closed oligarchy on the development of society. Take this example: until recently it was not defined how companies making bio-fuels should operate. Nevertheless the local administration in Ericeira was making it for free, unknowingly breaking the law - by not paying taxes for filling the tanks of motorised vehicles. When they decided to make it legal, discovered that the production quotas had already - near immediately - been subscribed by people close to law-makers.
There were also some large pools of pig dejects awaiting use in energy production, because probably the Right Folks were not yet ready to start production.