Solar panel removal, reinstall & repair in Orange County, NC

On the ground in Orange County

Permits, power and roofs in Orange County

In Hillsborough's historic district the first hurdle is often the Historic District Commission, since a change the street can see may require a certificate of appropriateness before work starts. Elsewhere, Orange County's planning and inspections office permits work in the unincorporated county, while Chapel Hill keeps its own inspectors. Duke Energy Carolinas serves the towns and much of the land near them, and Piedmont Electric, the co-op headquartered in Hillsborough, serves a large share of the countryside with its own interconnection steps. Carrboro's old mill houses have small, low roofs with little room to shift panels around a vent stack. Out in the county, standing-seam roofs on farmhouses and steep cabin roofs each need their own mounts. Ice storms and falling limbs are the usual winter damage.

Efland and Cedar Grove owners usually have a system on a farmhouse roof that needs replacing, with the original installer long out of the picture. On Hillsborough's older streets, owners weigh how a reinstall will look from the sidewalk. Carrboro's tight lots and big oaks mean the array was squeezed onto whichever plane had sun, and a re-roof has to put it back exactly that way.