Qualified Projects

Building Types

Accepted Building Types

• • Single Family Homes
  • Duplexes
  • Triplexes

Rejected Building Types

• • Carports

  • Condos
  • Manufactures homes (ok for Ground Mounted systems)

Main Service Panel Types

Automatic MPU Types

• • Hot Busses or Split Busses
    • Unless we get confirmation that the AHJ will grandfather an existing
  • If there is damage to the Main Panel
  • Backfeed Capacity is reached
  • If the Main Panel is one of the following panel types
    • Federal Pacific
    • Bulldog
    • Pushmatic
    • Stabloc
    • Zinsco
    • Challenger

Rejected MPU Types

• • Underground Panels in one of the following utilities
    
    • PGE
    • SDGE
  • Financed SDGE MPUs 
    • Customer Payment Deals and Sunrun deals are okay

Roof Types

Accepted Roof Types

• • Comp Shingle
    • With solid sheathing and no more than 2 layers
    • Must be in good condition with no balding, fiberglass showing, or cracked or missing shingles
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  • Flat Roof (BUR)
    • a.k.a. “torch down”, “hot tar” or “mod bit” rolled comp
    • Must be in good condition, with no balding or fiberglass showing, or buckling/wavy areas,
    • No open seams or separating along the edges or flashings.
    • 
  • TPO or Membrane
    • TPO or any other single-ply membrane roof
    • 
  • Tar and Gravel
    • Must be in good condition
    • No balding, cracking, or separating along the edges from the metal flashing
    • 
  • Spray Polyurethane (SPF)
    • Must be in good condition
    • No bubbles or areas where the coating is delaminating showing the yellow foam beneath
    • 
  • Concrete Tile
    • All profiles, S tile, flat tile, and M/W tile must be standard weight (over 9 lbs. per tile for
      normal-sized tiles that have 88 tiles per square) – underlayment must pass the stress test – cannot be dried out and brittle
    • 
  • Standing Seam Metal
    • Seam must be tall enough and strong enough for the mounting clamp to grip the seam.
    • Hexagonal/trapezoidal must be able to clamp to raised corrugation.
    • Not an option in high-wind areas.
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Re-roof Required Roof Types

• • Clay Tile
    • Any type of clay tile must have a PV area (full roof plane) reroofed with “clay tile –comp out”
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  • Lightweight concrete
    • Under 9 lbs per tile, any type of clay tile must have a PV area (full roof plane)reroofed with “clay tile – comp out”
    • 
  • Metal Tile
    • a.k.a. “Decra” or “Calpac”
    • Must reroof to a supported roof type – minimum PV area only (most economical option would be comp shingle)
    • 
  • Wood Shake / Shingle
    • Must reroof to a supported roof type – min PV area only (most economical option would be comp shingle)
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  • Corrugated Metal
    • • Any other profile besides those listed above in Qualified roof types must reroof with standing seam or hexagonal metal
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  • Custom Special-Order Tile
    • Must reroof to a supported roof type – min PV area only (most economical option would be comp shingle)
    • 
  • Cal-shake Cement Fiber
    • Must reroof to a supported roof type – minimum PV area only (most
      economical option would be comp shingle)
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Rejected Roof Types

• • Any roof over 45 degrees will be rejected regardless of roof type