Solar panel removal, reinstall & repair in Oglethorpe County, GA

On the ground in Oglethorpe County

Permits, power and roofs in Oglethorpe County

Lexington, Crawford, Arnoldsville and Maxeys are all small, so most permit questions end up with the county, and a reinstall is generally inspected as electrical work. A standing-seam metal roof is good news for solar: the rails clamp to the seams without a single hole, and the array can often stay in place through a repair. Shingled houses are a different job, because the panels must come down before the tear-off. Rayle EMC serves much of the county, with Jackson EMC in other parts, and both expect to hear before a grid-tied system goes dark and again before it returns. Ice is the winter worry. A heavy glaze bends pines and hardwoods onto roofs, and one falling limb can kink a rail or shatter a panel even when the roof underneath survives.

Near Crawford and Arnoldsville, the panels on many older homes have outlived the shingles beneath them. In Lexington, where several houses date to before the Civil War, owners care how an array looks from the road. Out in the county, ground racks bring their own trouble: mower strikes on exposed wire, and fire ants packing the combiner and junction boxes.