[mrits]

It's not always a no-brainer. If you live in a good established neighborhood in a warmer climate you'd have to remove tree coverage. Even if you did that, it's the other guys not oil or gas that will make it a hassle.

[testing22321]

New panels are much less impacted by shade. Friends out of town just installed the same setup as ours, didn’t want to cut down three monster Doug firs shading their roof in summer.

Made 6.9Mwh in 2025, only just less than ours with no shade at all.

[boringg]

I mean physics would dictate that shade impacts performance but if you are able to break the laws of physics I am impressed!

[Tepix]

Houses where the roof is completely in the shade from trees? That's not a very common sight.

[mrits]

It's a very common site and greatly increases the value of the property.

It reminds me of when I was telling my Canadian friend how my pool gets a lot of leaves in it from all the trees and they said that was unfortunate. In Austin the pools get too hot to actually swim in if they aren't shaded.

[treis]

Depends on the city. Here in Atlanta we are a "city in a forest" and for older neighborhoods with mature trees it's more common than not.