Unfortunately the statute is not a picture of clarity.
Nc solar panel law.
The current state of solar laws for homeowners associations in north carolina 2019 update.
However there is a north carolina law that specifically addresses solar panels and the extent to which they may be regulated or prohibited by restrictive covenants.
Federal investment tax credit.
The first relevant date for a homeowner s association in north carolina is october 1 2007.
According to north carolina senate bill 670 there are solar access laws that give the homeowner power over local ordinances to utilize solar radiation as energy on their detached single family residence homes.
Occasionally homeowners associations will ask that a solar array not be visible from a road or common area of a neighborhood.
2 in the nation for overall solar power and the bill would allow 2 6 gigawatts of new solar over 3 1 2 years.
The statute is titled deed restrictions and other agreements prohibiting solar collectors n c g s.
Thanks to this legislation solar loan terms in north carolina can be no longer than 20 years have an interest rate cap set at 8 percent and can easily be renewed.
Some residents registered fears that the panels would disrupt the local ecosystem while many others worried property values.
The competitive energy solutions for north carolina law signed recently by gov.
A north carolina town rejected the further installation of solar panels.
Roy cooper positions the state for continued solar growth while saving customers money.
Posted on october 3 2019 by david wilson.
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North carolina law requires all three of north carolina s largest electric utilities duke energy progress energy and dominion north carolina power to make full retail rate net metering available to customers.
For those of us who live in a homeowner s association we may or may not have rules that either allow or prohibit installation of solar panels.
For homeowners associations the trend has been for state legislatures to create laws allowing installation of solar collectors regardless of what the hoa may say.
Session law 2007 279 senate bill 670 an act to provide that city ordinances county ordinances and deed restrictions covenants and other similar agreements cannot prohibit or have the effect of prohibiting the installation of solar collectors not facing public access or common areas on detached single family residences.
