Comments on: Vermont Pioneers 10-Day Rooftop Solar Permits

By: science guru

science guru — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 05:23:00 +0000

Susan Kraemer,
You started put making some valid points then you just had to “red state/green state” politicize it. Where I live, the heavily democratic city will take weeks to approve a solar permit and the surrounding Republican county will process a permit in less than an hour!

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:13:00 +0000

Ah, the NL, so damn practical… how i miss living there!

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:12:00 +0000

Good to know. Thanks for the note.

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:11:00 +0000

Nice.

And yes, it is very puzzling…

By: Asavage

Asavage — Tue, 29 May 2012 14:36:00 +0000

Gary– Interesting. I helped work on the new Vermont law in my role with AllEarth Renewables and I’d never heard about MT’s system. I’ll look into it.

By: Susan Kraemer

Susan Kraemer — Sat, 26 May 2012 22:59:00 +0000

Very interesting!

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 25 May 2012 08:43:00 +0000

A permit to put some panels on your own roof? In The Netherlands (pot smoking liberal communists) you do not need a permit (unless you live in a monument). You only need an electrician to do the final connection.

By: GaryBIS

GaryBIS — Thu, 24 May 2012 23:03:00 +0000

I guess I did not realize how easy we have it in MT. I just sent in $45 with my permit application and got the permit back by return mail in less than a week. After I installed the system, the inspector came out the day after I called him and signed the permit off. The utility people came out about 3 days later with the new net meter.
Everyone I dealt with was friendly and knew what they were doing.
Puzzling that its so difficult and expense in some areas.
Gary

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Thu, 24 May 2012 16:45:00 +0000

Yep, Stan, you’ve got it all scoped out.

Illegal immigrants, cronic (sic) welfare mamas, and bullies….the public sector. That’s what caused the financial industry meltdown and the enormous recession that’s still hurting us.

And those immigrants and mama bullies, causing global warming as well as polluting our air and water.

Oh yeah, how about how the bully mama immigrants started three wars over oil and caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people?

(You checked out the right-wing terrorist mama bullies that have been trying to blow us up? I guess illegal immigrants are sneaking guns and bombs in to them, eh?)

—

Personally I think stupidity is “public’s (sic) enemy number one”.

By: Stan Stein

Stan Stein — Thu, 24 May 2012 11:59:00 +0000

Yet ANOTHER way the public sector causes problems…..in fact, if you took away illegal immigrants, cronic welfare mamas, and bullies….the public sector would be the cause of of almost ALL problems in our country…everyone elses too I guess.
Think about it…..would YOU, as a citizen, support anything the public sector does that provides no real advantage for people?
Maybe we should rename the orgs of the public sector
“public’s enemy number one”

By: RobS

RobS — Thu, 24 May 2012 01:57:00 +0000

$500/kw used to be a small faction of the system cost, now it is closer to 1/3 of the cost of a system. With the modules themselves falling 30-50% in cost year on year these balance of system costs are going to be increasingly important. We will soon reach a point where the panels are the cheapest part of a solar system.

By: rkt9

rkt9 — Thu, 24 May 2012 01:24:00 +0000

Thanks for bringing this issue up, I have never seen it mentioned before.

By: zombiesgirl

zombiesgirl — Wed, 23 May 2012 23:33:00 +0000

There are a few cities in California that recognize that the solar permit fee shouldn’t be so high eg Santa Monica, where it’s free, and some that allow small system’s permit to be over the counter eg City of LA ,