Blue Ridge Mountains · county seat Franklin
Solar panel removal, reinstall & repair in Macon County, NC
Macon County holds two very different roof markets about twenty miles apart. Franklin sits low in the Little Tennessee valley among brick ranches and modest frame houses, while Highlands, above 4,000 feet with close to 90 inches of rain a year, is mostly large second homes with cedar shake and heavy timber under a dripping forest canopy.
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How we cover it
A Florida crew, and a straight answer for Macon County
Art of Solar is a Florida solar company, so there is no van around the corner in Macon County. Call or text the address, the panel count and what is going on, and you get a straight answer: what the job needs, roughly what it costs, and whether we can take it on or who should.
On the ground in Macon County
Permits, power and roofs in Macon County
Two offices can be involved on the plateau: Macon County's permitting office covers the unincorporated county, and Highlands keeps its own town zoning. Power is just as divided. Duke Energy Carolinas serves much of the valley, Haywood EMC covers rural stretches, and Highlands runs a municipal electric system with its own terms for rooftop generation. Up on the plateau, constant moisture is the enemy: moss creeps under the panels, shakes rot where leaves pile against the racking, and a roof that dries slowly shows trouble first at the mounts. Around Franklin the problems are more ordinary, mostly shingles from the 1990s reaching the end of their life beneath arrays that still have years left in them. Gem-mining country in the Cowee valley adds older farmhouses with metal roofs.
Around Highlands and Scaly Mountain the usual request is a careful detach on a big shake or metal roof for owners who spend only the warm months there. In Franklin, Otto and the Cowee valley it is a leaking mount on an older house, or panels that need to come off for a re-roof after a windstorm drops a limb.
Local details
Macon County at a glance
- Power company
- Duke Energy Carolinas and Haywood EMC, plus the Town of Highlands' own electric system
- County seat
- Franklin
Towns in Macon County
The whole county is the same call
- Franklin
- Highlands
- Otto
- Scaly Mountain
FAQ
Macon County: questions homeowners ask
Can you take solar panels off for a new roof in Macon County?
Often, yes, when it is planned. Art of Solar is a Florida solar company, so North Carolina work is booked ahead and grouped with other jobs in Blue Ridge Mountains, and it only goes ahead with the North Carolina license the work needs. Send the address, the panel count and the roofer's tear-off date for a straight answer.
Who is allowed to work on solar panels in North Carolina?
In North Carolina, a solar job of any size has to be contracted and permitted by a contractor licensed by the State Board of Examiners of Electrical Contractors: a limited, intermediate or unlimited electrical license, or the special restricted single-family dwelling license for work on a detached house. A general contractor may work under that electrician, and there is no separate solar license.
Who reconnects the system in Macon County?
Homes in Macon County are generally served by Duke Energy Carolinas and Haywood EMC, plus the Town of Highlands' own electric system. When an array goes back on after a roof job the utility usually needs to know, and the building department normally inspects the reinstall before the system is switched back on.
My installer went out of business. Can the system still be fixed?
Usually. The installer's own workmanship warranty is gone, but the panels, inverter and optimizers carry manufacturer warranties that normally still apply, and a dead system is often one failed part rather than a worn-out array.
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Get a written quote in Macon County
The address, roughly how many panels, who installed them if you know, and what is happening. A photo of the array from the street and one of the inverter get you an accurate number fastest, and texting them is the quickest way to send them.
Solar help in Macon County
Any brand, any roofer, any original installer. Written quote before a panel moves.