It should be illegal to not architect a home to maximize solar.
California has a terrible law that promotes “builder grade” solar of the minimum regulatory size, and then makes adding proper solar more expensive than if they didn’t fuck up the house intentionally.
make the worst house possible to thumb their nose at CA government and its regulations.
Improve value of home that with ultra high CA electricity rates pays for itself very quickly, and adds value more than the cost, and so makes more money for builder.
It should be illegal to not architect a home to maximize solar.
California has a terrible law that promotes “builder grade” solar of the minimum regulatory size, and then makes adding proper solar more expensive than if they didn’t fuck up the house intentionally.
The builders’ lobby is powerful in CA.
Very likely, but their choices are: