What's the biggest frustration that you deal/dealt with in going solar?

[Ampster]

So as I've heard it, even fully owned solar pv systems tend to not have any impact on sales prices of homes. So have any homeowners challenged these increased valuations with any success?

I got an appraisal increase of 50% of the cost of the solar I recently installed. How would one go about challenging those valuations

Real estate is market driven although hype, staging and market mania may have some influence. I leased an all electric townhome which has solar and the tenant told me that he was influenced by the solar. I don't know that I got an above market rent but it did rent out quickly.

[J.P.M.]

So as I've heard it, even fully owned solar pv systems tend to not have any impact on sales prices of homes. So have any homeowners challenged these increased valuations with any success?

A property is only worth what someone is willing to pay. Believe it or not, more than a few folks think PV and alternate energy suck. That means the pool of potential and available buyers is probably less. A lower number of potential buyers doesn't usually increase demand or the price of something.

[Yet another Yeti]

News claimed , that just 7 per cent of new build houses in German have photo voltaic installed .

When one looks at electricitymap org , something seems not right ....

Today at 17:00 o'clock summer time 43% solar of solar installed size of around
45 to 50 GigaWatt nameplate : providing 27% of electricity of around 80 GWatt
still at 5 past midday , but cold eastern winds here .


Australia and North Amerca are worth to look at electricitymap org ,
and "green" California vanishes against mid-European countries ;
Poland might be a windy place , compared to NorthSea England ...

[Mike90250]

News claimed , that just 7 per cent of new build houses in German have photo voltaic installed .......

Maybe only 7% is in a favorable solar area ?

[SunEagle]

News claimed , that just 7 per cent of new build houses in German have photo voltaic installed .

When one looks at electricitymap org , something seems not right ....

Today at 17:00 o'clock summer time 43% solar of solar installed size of around
45 to 50 GigaWatt nameplate : providing 27% of electricity of around 80 GWatt
still at 5 past midday , but cold eastern winds here .


Australia and North Amerca are worth to look at electricitymap org ,
and "green" California vanishes against mid-European countries ;
Poland might be a windy place , compared to NorthSea England ...

The culture in the US is way different then most of Europe including Germany. As stated before, a solar pv system may actually reduce the value of a home in most buyers eyes.

[Yet another Yeti]

Maybe only 7% is in a favorable solar area ?

Southern Germany is at 15% solar pv on new build homes .

But never the less , people would get even in the north , too ,
with 800 kWh / kWpeak installed size annually .

The south has 1000+ kWh / kWp annually , and because the current
manufacturing heart is there , people there have more money ,
are more confident about the future , and that way money
goes where the money is .