.....To me Hawaii is the real proving ground for solar because energy prices are so high out there. If ANY solar roof/batt combo is more than marginally worth it's price HI will let us know when a majority of its houses go solar and disconnect from the grid. HI has a small grid and good conditions for solar so it can't support so many solar houses connected to its grid. It is a real problem out there. If these roof/battery combos are the bomb then HI should devour them. If not there is your answer.
nope,....not happening,....
simple statistics,...
the home ownership rate in the US of A is down to the low 60 percentiles and dropping,...
Hawaii is even lower, by eight to ten percent on the latest numbers, depending on your variables,...
no landlord is going to trust the good stewardship of a capital expenditure as expensive and stewardship intensive as solar infrastructure to a tenant, excepting very high end tenants, but definitely NOT middle class or less,...
I've been a landlord, emphasis on BEEN, no way jose,...
after the crap I have seen tenants capable of?!?!?!?!?
solar panels on the roof, worth how many hundreds to some sorta fence in some sorta back alley rented storage unit?!?!?!
Powerwall batteries and inverters worth thousands of dollars in reclaimable lithium?!?!?!?
not happening brother, no how, no way,....
hell, the government will not install this stuff in their housing projects for the very same reasons,....
solar powered housing freeing the grid of thousands of MW demands?!?!?!?
until home ownership is running in the high eighties that is not a strong economics projection,....
homeowners may go solar, LONG TERM homeowners are much more likely to go solar,...
BOTH of the foregoing are not the societal norm so much anymore,....
THAT's why the government offers all those crazy tax incentives,....
short term gains for short term homeowners are what makes solar attractive for near term purchase,...
the only way to "subsidize" solar other than those tax incentives (which are national credit card incentives) will be to mandate solar in new construction and penalize existing units which do not have solar,...
watch for that to be coming down the 'pike, dressed up as "being a good citizen vis a vis environmental and climate stewardship",...
bad citizen's must pay,...