They also make fighting a house fire MUCH more difficult. The firefighters have to de-energize the panels first. Then they struggle to cut holes in the roof to ventilate the attic and house. I suspect that increased fire risk may be the root cause of the insurance premium hikes or outright cancellations.
So you have higher roof leak potential, hail damage possibility, and increased fire risk. What’s not to like?
A friend of mine is a fire fighter. The biggest problem with these panels is the panel itself will always produce electricity when it gets late. Usually they’re all stalling the roof any wire runs somewheres down through the structure carrying high voltage current to a disconnect switch than the inverter. Even when they shut off the disconnect you still have a dangerous live wire between the roof and the disconnect and they don’t know where that is always. Even if the fire occurs at night, when they fire up all the scene lighting and light towers so they can see
I did not know that.