It’s one of the ways we will bring down the cost of installed solar for the rest of us.

(BTW, I saw mention today that large-quantity purchase price of PV panels has now dropped below $1/watt. Shouldn’t be long before we see large array solar under $0.15/kWh.)

I had a friend who spent a summer painting the insides of military housing. The military would simply move everyone out, a crew would come through and mask everything that wasn’t supposed to be painted and he would walk through with an airless sprayer wearing a ‘space suit’ and paint 2-3 interiors per day.

Same will happen with solar. The crews will start at one end of the street and work from house to house until they are finished. No doing one roof and then having to pack up and drive across town to do the next.

Perhaps you aren’t aware, but our military families are largely lower income. We’ve got lots of service families on food stamps. Getting them a cut on their utility bills makes good sense to me.

BTW, it’s not uncommon for military housing to turn into public use housing when bases are no longer needed. One of the small towns near me is in the process of upgrading ex-Coast Guard housing for low income rentals and for the police and fire fighter employees who can’t afford to rent in the ’boutique’ town.