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In Reply to: Thanks for that, Rod. posted by Sondek on July 6, 2023 at 05:52:54:
> > Deed restrictions prohibit doing things that are visible from the street.
That's a bitch. Not that you want to buck the system, but I wonder if those covenants can be enforced for solar.
There are options. Our first system of 40 panels was all on the main house. It has very little south facing areas which you see on the map on the right. The large group in the middle by the green boxes and red square. The green boxes are for the 3 solar inverters. Number 1 and 2 are mostly on the west facing side. Number 3 is the array on the top that is all south facing which is on another building on our guest house roof. You can see that it's not radically higher production, so don't give up if you can't use the best area.
North facing is the worse, but west and east isn't that bad. In our case, we can have cloudy mornings, but it typically breaks and bu 11 to 12 o'clock, it's usually sunny or partly sunny. However, you can use a north face to work well by tilting up the panel to face south. You can see that on the cottage with those panels on the opposite side of the roof peak. The panels on the cottage are split in half with half of the panels feeding over to the main house.
You can also put panels on the ground, tilted to the face south.
Realistically, you'd need a system sized as large as ours plus the cottage panels to produce 24,000 kWh/year. Anyway, a 16-17 kWp system would still need 40+ panels using 400 watt panels and is likely to cost around $35K after the 30% tax credit. That's a long ROI if you only paying an electric bill of $200/month.
-Rod
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