ffejie OP t1_j72c5xv wrote on February 3, 2023 at 3:58 PM

Reply to comment by kevstev in Solar on Row house / Townhouse / Brownstone by ffejie

I am exactly where you are. I submitted some info to a few different companies and everyone ran away after talking to me for 5 minutes when they actually looked at the satellite imagery one typical example: "is your roof, like, _attached_ to other roofs? Do you live in an apartment?" It was as if the tech had never seen a row home before.

I'm extremely well qualified to do a DIY install, but I simply don't trust myself to not screw up my roof and cost myself $10s of thousands of dollars and a huge hassle.

I've already signed up for Community Solar - a total no brainer - it's just a net savings for everyone, regardless of your opinion of solar/solar incentives/GHG reduction.

Thanks for these details - I have some other leads based on this post, and will update when I lock in someone to do this so hopefully you can get on this path as well.

kevstev t1_j72d2e7 wrote on February 3, 2023 at 4:04 PM

Yeah so the database I mentioned above apparently is no longer online for some reason, it used to exist at http://openpv.nrel.gov but it is not available, its unclear if that is permanent or temporary- a doc from another part of the site kind of implies that they might charge for the data now, but if that's true, its not clear how you would even do that- but it was the only site that actually got me to someone actually willing to do a project around here.

If you get some real leads, please share!