Yes, when you are severely space constrained it could well make sense. But 25% isn't a big enough difference to enable that. You'd have to do much better than that.

> It’d also help work around rules like the one my HOA imposes, where roof mounted solar can’t be street visible.

Bloody hell, some people just want to watch the world burn.

Wonder if they'd allow a rooftop similar to Tesla's solar rooftop. I totally think HOAs are pretty ridiculous in general.

> It’d also help work around rules like the one my HOA imposes, where roof mounted solar can’t be street visible.

I feel like if we cared about climate change at all there would be federal (global?) laws with severe penalties making rules like the one above highly illegal.

What is disgrace

Definitely a good thing to put on the list of things to complain to legislators about.

For those that don’t have such a list, I recommend you start, otherwise the only opinions they hear are from people paid to capture their attention.

This is really the exception, not the rule. and at least 21 states have laws invalidating it. Mainly the HOAs are there to regulate DIY'ers from having wires hanging down or ladders permanently installed on the house so they can go up there and tinker 3 hours/day 5x a week.

> roof mounted solar can’t be street visible

"Look they have solar panels on their roof. There goes the neighbourhood."

We actually got some comments about that on our house. I asked the neighbors that made the comment if they were willing to put up the difference and I'd be more than happy to take them down. So far no takers ;)