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While I picked [https://solarcity.com SolarCity] for a number of reasons to provide solar power, the installation timeline and process has been a bit frustrating.
While I picked [https://solarcity.com SolarCity] for a number of reasons to provide solar power, the installation timeline and process has been a bit frustrating.


* June 10, 2017 - Submitted initial paperwork while the very professional "Energy Consultant" was on site. Paid $500 deposit and scheduled visit by an assessor to measure the roof, etc, so I could get an official proposal. Initial proposal with energy consultant ended up being the one I would want to go with (which put a set of panels on a less efficient but back roof to complement the main set of panels).
Note that this is a cash buy, and every invoice has been immediately paid, so there should be no financing approval process anywhere in this timeline.
 
 
* June 10, 2017 -- Submitted initial paperwork while the very professional "Energy Consultant" was on site. Paid $500 deposit and scheduled visit (for June 16) by a surveyor to measure the roof, etc, so I could get an official proposal. <span style="color:green">Initial proposal with energy consultant ended up being the one I would want to go with</span> (which put a set of panels on a less efficient but back roof to complement the main set of panels).
* June 15 -- Got a call from the surveyor that he was available earlier if I was, and <span style="color:green">got the survey done early</span>!
* June 15 -- Received design proposal, which was different than the one I went through with the energy consultant, but was more efficient. I immediately responded and asked for a re-design, moving the 2nd set of panels to a different roof.
 
 
* June 15 - June 23 -- <span style="color:red">Energy consultant asked on my behalf, but radio silence from engineering team. No redesign in sight.</span>
* June 23 -- Posted to social media about delay. Got immediate response. Engineering hopped on things and I got new proposal on the same day.
* June 26 -- After finding out permitting wasn't submitted on new redesign (probably due to a process circumvention on the escalation), got installation scheduled for July 1.
* June 28 -- Received invoice from finops@, paid $14331.28 half-invoice within an hour over paypal.
 
 
* July 1 -- Installation team arrived. Proceeded to put mounting hardware on the roof <span style="color:red"><b><I>inconsistent with the proposed design</i></b></span>.

Revision as of 16:44, 7 July 2017

While I picked SolarCity for a number of reasons to provide solar power, the installation timeline and process has been a bit frustrating.

Note that this is a cash buy, and every invoice has been immediately paid, so there should be no financing approval process anywhere in this timeline.


  • June 10, 2017 -- Submitted initial paperwork while the very professional "Energy Consultant" was on site. Paid $500 deposit and scheduled visit (for June 16) by a surveyor to measure the roof, etc, so I could get an official proposal. Initial proposal with energy consultant ended up being the one I would want to go with (which put a set of panels on a less efficient but back roof to complement the main set of panels).
  • June 15 -- Got a call from the surveyor that he was available earlier if I was, and got the survey done early!
  • June 15 -- Received design proposal, which was different than the one I went through with the energy consultant, but was more efficient. I immediately responded and asked for a re-design, moving the 2nd set of panels to a different roof.


  • June 15 - June 23 -- Energy consultant asked on my behalf, but radio silence from engineering team. No redesign in sight.
  • June 23 -- Posted to social media about delay. Got immediate response. Engineering hopped on things and I got new proposal on the same day.
  • June 26 -- After finding out permitting wasn't submitted on new redesign (probably due to a process circumvention on the escalation), got installation scheduled for July 1.
  • June 28 -- Received invoice from finops@, paid $14331.28 half-invoice within an hour over paypal.


  • July 1 -- Installation team arrived. Proceeded to put mounting hardware on the roof inconsistent with the proposed design.