In countries like Germany, balcony-mounted solar panels are all the rage. But from breaker-masking to voltage mismatches, America’s grid isn’t ready for it—yet.
The other part is lack of tenant rights. Which Utah will not be a leader on anytime soon. Our leases have half page long restrictions on what can and can’t be on your balcony and the legislature isn’t about to back up renters.
It took me a while to reply to this. I thought it was a really good comment though.
I didn’t think about landlords doing their usual douchey thing. But of course this is going to happen because anything that disturbs some apartment owners arbitrary aesthetic vision is going to be banned easily.
I read the legislation. it’s only five pages. It is really biased for single home owners without being explicit about that.
I think I did the estimate correctly, under typical sunny Utah conditions you would only make about a dollar worth of electricity a day at current rates with the maximum allowed system.
The other part is lack of tenant rights. Which Utah will not be a leader on anytime soon. Our leases have half page long restrictions on what can and can’t be on your balcony and the legislature isn’t about to back up renters.
It took me a while to reply to this. I thought it was a really good comment though.
I didn’t think about landlords doing their usual douchey thing. But of course this is going to happen because anything that disturbs some apartment owners arbitrary aesthetic vision is going to be banned easily.
I read the legislation. it’s only five pages. It is really biased for single home owners without being explicit about that.
The actual law
I think I did the estimate correctly, under typical sunny Utah conditions you would only make about a dollar worth of electricity a day at current rates with the maximum allowed system.