re: Solar Panels - Yay or Nay

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What I want to know is what you do when you have to re-shingle the roof.

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That is the next owners problem

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What I want to know is what you do when you have to re-shingle the roof.

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You call the customer service # and they promptly come out and uninstall all their panels and they schedule the reinstall with the roofer. All free of charge of course.

just had this done. Had two panels removed temporarily while they repaired shingles that had been destroyed by varmints (racoons) that got underneath the panels. This was only discovered when I bought the property and found a couple inverters weren't performing to peak. I would never ever be the original purchaser of solar panels due to the extended payback period typically 12-15 yrs. Mine should cover about 35-40% of my electric bill annually. I would however not mind buying a home (as I did) with them already installed and baked in to the market price of the property effectively. FWIW I only discovered the inverters not working after my first utility bill and did some quick math to find the payback was like 110 yrs, so I new something was wrong and had the solar company come look...and that's when we found the shingle issues. Paid $250 for them to come out remove panels, send inverters in for warranty, and I'll be paying another 250 for replacing everything....all in all it's one big effing SCAM. One more thing is I don't have batteries, mine just feed into the grid or my home depending on energy requirements of my home. Solar is great for someone who wants or needs to be off grid, but just a neutral for someone on the grid.