It's a shame you have to deal with that
but it's their right to do that (good comes with the bad sometimes)
as it's your right to work on stuff in the shop affected by that
I had solar on my last place in Rancho Murieta
hot SOB down there
It wasn't worth it, too much cost & not enough return
We were on SMUD not PG&E, for electricity,
with no natural gas only propane, my place/s (both duplexes) was all electric
My electric bill with my house set at 70* year-round
was rarely over $70 a month
Even before the solar
& small wind turbine that worked maybe 1/2 the time
(I got solar to help out a buddy, starting a new company)
My solar water heating for the pool, tubes on the roof, was pretty good...
The pump was electric still...
But takes a long time to pay back the $30k investment for the panels
I had a tile roof didn't need a new roof ($25k back then)
or I wouldn't have done it at all...
& almost $5k maintenance costs, in 10 years, for 1 new inverter once,
all new batteries twice (5 x 2 = 10)
over 10 years in electric bills, no returns
they/PG&E subsidies, didn't pay you for the extra energy produced
ever either
I'm 1/2 surprised we don't have that much up here, in the mountains
lots of sun 'usually' (not the past 2 years) 300+ days a year...
I'm glad but surprised...
Don't work well under snow or when it's raining or cloudy...
You have to go up clean them off too, to have good duty cyles
or it's huge diminishing returns if you're too lazy
or too feeble to get up there, to do so
When power goes out, it does a lot more than I'd like
I hear whole house generators a lot,
I don't see much if any solar or wind, at all...
Sunny most of the time, some day as long as 16 hrs a day
glad we don't, but sort of surprised, but it's a nice older 80-home community
(No HOAs thank goodness) started in like 1987-ish
I suspect when most remodels, that will be done, it will be required as part of the
getting a permit process (thanks to Gruesome Newsome)
Hard to justify $30k+ solar (or more likely)
& a new $30k+ roof (or more now likely too) = $60k+ (more on the plus side)
on a house that's worth between $400k-$550k on the market