My update..

So, I had a nice call from the SolarCity folks last Thursday, they dropped the permit application off at the city of Mission Viejo. They had a form they needed me to complete (neighbor awareness) and I got that signed along with my association neighbor approval form. Dropped the HOA plans off at the HOA office and now it's more waiting. We'll see how things go.

Huge Solar Plants Planned for California - SLO

The NY Times is reporting that two Solar PV plants are planning for San Luis Obispo. The arrays will cover 12.5 square miles, and could generate up to 800 megawatts of power -- the amount of power produced by a large coal-burning power plant!

Cool new site..

I read about this site on Gizmodo and thought that I would share. The site seems to be getting hammered right now, so be patient.

It's called RoofRay and will do a little estimation to see what type of solution would be possible on your roof.

Pretty neat stuff.

Solar Systems Design Complete!

Last Friday I received a ten page PDF of the detailed design plans which SolarCity put together for me. There was a small change, they no longer have the BP200 watt panels originally quoted, so they switched me to 24 190W BP panels instead. That changed the costs a litle, but nothing too significant, they sent me an ammended lease, and I filled it out and am sending it back.

SolarCity is going to handle the submission to the city to get the building permit, and handle the relationship with Southern California Edison (SCE).

Mike is going to talk with the HOA to see how we can get this approved as quickly as possible.

All for now, I'll keep you posted.

Waiting game..

Like any new purchase, the wait between ordering and receiving the goods no matter how short, seems like forever (thus the reason overnight shipping is so popular). It's been two weeks from the site audit, I'm awaiting word from the good folks at SolarCity -- they warned me about this, but it still is painful to wait. Especially when it's getting hot and our electric bill is getting bigger and bigger. I'll keep everyone updated and post more as soon as I hear something. On another note, I found another guy who is blogging about his solar experience, he calls himself SolarDave and can be found at http://www.solardave.com/.