Solar installers
Solar Site Screening Packet
"Which of these N addresses do I stop working on before spending money, and for the survivors, what do I hand the surveyor and the interconnection desk on day one." Concretely three sub-decisions the packet settles: (a) is there enough measured net roof area at a workable pitch to clear our minimum project size, (b) can we legally fly the LAANC drone survey over this site or must we hire a manned/
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What is on it
28 lines, three maps and charts, and one page of answers. Anything we cannot answer for a property says so rather than being left blank.
Jurisdiction: state, county and place
Building measurement available
Measurement date
Structure record: occupancy, footprint, distance
Footprint area, building height and stories
Gross roof area
Roof penetrations: count and area removed
Net roof area after penetrations
Dominant roof pitch (x/12) and roof type
Roof measurement confidence grade
Tallest tree nearby
Share of roof not visible
Area vegetation height and cover
Full-coverage array size
Sizing assumptions: sq ft per kW and derate
Twenty-year average solar irradiance
Full-coverage annual production ceiling
Serving utility, entity type and regulated status
Hosting-capacity coverage status
Published PV hosting capacity, nearest circuit
Nearest substation: distance and voltage
LAANC drone ceiling
Seismic design category, SDS and site class
Hail reports 1 inch or larger, and largest stone
Soil slope, drainage, bedrock depth, shrink-swell
Crop history, recent years
Nearest historic district and nearby listings
Sources, limits and units charged
What it is not
- NO PRODUCTION ESTIMATE.
- NO SHADE STUDY.
- NO STRUCTURAL CAPACITY AND NO SEAL.
- NO ARRAY LAYOUT AND NO AZIMUTH.
- NO RANKING, NO SCORE, NO TRIAGE BY RISK.
- NO INTERCONNECTION OUTCOME.