zanydroid
Solar Wizard
Probably a little too much snark, but I stand by my thinking that
In PG&E territory, the minimum up-front cost is something like $250-500 permit for all AHJ & POCO layers. Monthly is $10-15/month, or about 1 kWh per day of offset to break even.
You can buy some cheap UL1741 grid tie microinverters off eBay to get a compliant installation, this will also satisfy RSD. I think there's also a $700-1000 gridtie Growatt you can pick up locally from Renvu, if you're into strings. They may have SunSpec RSD transmitter built in, so then you only need to add the $20 / panel RSD
The other cost delta from the installation shared in OP would be racking, which IMO is table stakes because you don't want things falling off...
In PG&E territory, the minimum up-front cost is something like $250-500 permit for all AHJ & POCO layers. Monthly is $10-15/month, or about 1 kWh per day of offset to break even.
You can buy some cheap UL1741 grid tie microinverters off eBay to get a compliant installation, this will also satisfy RSD. I think there's also a $700-1000 gridtie Growatt you can pick up locally from Renvu, if you're into strings. They may have SunSpec RSD transmitter built in, so then you only need to add the $20 / panel RSD
The other cost delta from the installation shared in OP would be racking, which IMO is table stakes because you don't want things falling off...