California to require new homes to have solar in 2020...
Photowhit
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I admit I haven't checked on the rules and methods of this, and I applaud the idea....
...but some houses and locations have such a poor layout for solar this doesn't make any sense to me.
I know when I was looking for a lot in our park for good solar access only 1 in 40 had reasonable solar access with cutting trees on neighboring lots and only about 40 in 1500 were reasonable well setup from the get-go!
I would guess this will have to be over turned or have some measure of setting this aside for those communities that values trees.
...but some houses and locations have such a poor layout for solar this doesn't make any sense to me.
I know when I was looking for a lot in our park for good solar access only 1 in 40 had reasonable solar access with cutting trees on neighboring lots and only about 40 in 1500 were reasonable well setup from the get-go!
I would guess this will have to be over turned or have some measure of setting this aside for those communities that values trees.
Home system 4000 watt (Evergreen) array standing, with 2 Midnite Classic Lites, Midnite E-panel, Prosine 1800 and Exeltech 1100, 660 ah 24v ForkLift battery. Off grid for @16 of last 17 years. Assorted other systems, and to many panels in the closet to not do more...lol
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Years ago, there was a good sized development that was going 100% gt solar, but that would have required a new distribution substation (more or less, gt solar has 3 to 4x the peak average power back fed into the grid vs the average peak loads. They dropped the project.
Bill
Main daytime system ~4kw panels into 2xMNClassic150 370ah 48v bank 2xOutback 3548 inverter 120v + 240v autotransformer
Night system ~1kw panels into 1xMNClassic150 700ah 12v bank morningstar 300w inverter