What everyone is missing is.......most people in California who go solar aren’t doing it because of environmentalism. They’re doing it because our electric bills are outrageous and they are trying to save money. Saving the earth is secondary.
The problem with that is the breakeven point is so many years in the future that people lose money by moving early or the panels need to be replaced just about the time they're paid off or the lease ends. So savings never materialize, or there is a net loss. And then there is the issue of selling a house with leased panels, which is almost all of them, because now you have two separate transactions. When we were looking for a home in Arizona I told our agent no houses with solar panels.