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We had a similiar event in our area, except it was a self inflicted enviro wound.

A nice but not the brightest couple decided to help the earth and installed a huge, expensive and similiar solar system.

They failed to consider the growth of the 100 + year old native oaks on the south and west side of their property. In a couple of years the oaks on their property were blocking most of the sunlight.

They tried to get permission from the homeowners group to cut the tops of the native oaks, which kills oaks in about a year.

One of their neighbors across the street is a rabid and powerful greenie. She got some of her green lawyer and enviro buddies to warn the solar dreamers not to prune or top their oaks.

So each year their expensive and tax supported solar system was less effective then the previous year, which wasn’t very effective.

Two years agao, the ultimate blow came when their roof started leaking, and the roofing company said the installation of the solar system voided their 20 year warranty. The roofing company had warned the home owners, verbally and in writing, that their warranty would be null and void with installation of the massive solar system.

We have the same roofers, and they backed up their 20 year warranty with no /’s. Then after their warranty expired, they have fixed 3 problems at zero cost, where I felt their original roofing had installed some errors. The roofers are good people to deal with unless you do something like install a solar system on one of their roofs.

Last year, the neighbors had their worthless solar system torn down and removed, and a very expensive new roof was installed by an different roofer. The new roofing company had the neighbors sign a waiver if they decided to install another worthless solar system on their roof, their roofing warranty was null and void.