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Re:Solar Panels Reduced My Electric Bill by $2,677 in 2022 by jefftk on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @01:14PM (#34235322)
Having 21 panels requires a rectangle 17ft by 24ft (each panel is 5.4ft by 3.25ft). That's far from an estate: if it's a two story home with a flat roof you're talking 816sqft compared to a US median of 2,300sqft.
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Re:Solar Panels Reduced My Electric Bill by $2,677 in 2022 by VintageLight on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @01:34PM (#34235711)
1. Most roofs aren't flat. 2. For pitched roofs, you're only going to want to install on the south or west facing sides. So only some percentage of your roof area is ideal.
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Re:Solar Panels Reduced My Electric Bill by $2,677 in 2022 by _whiteCaps_ on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @02:37PM (#34236812)
Wouldn't the panels be the same pitch as the roof, so you'd reduce the footprint there as well?
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Re:Solar Panels Reduced My Electric Bill by $2,677 in 2022 by kube-system on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @02:51PM (#34237020)
And if you have a hip roof, it may be an exercise in fitting a rectangular peg in a triangular hole.

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Re:Solar Panels Reduced My Electric Bill by $2,677 in 2022 by jefftk on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @04:03PM (#34238017)
A pitched roof and installing on only half doesn't change it that much. If your roof is 45deg then you're talking about a 24x24 building. If that's two stories this is 1152sqft, still less than half the size of the median US house.

There are roof designs where even on a large house 21 panels won't fit, but looking around my neigborhood most houses could easily do that many.

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