[quote=spdrun]Speak to an official at the city code enforcement office who has an actual engineering degree or an electrical license, not a degree in marketing, government administration, or early French midget chauvinist literature cut out of a Wheaties box.
Interesting question though — are there any solar systems that can generate x watts output, but limit power sent back to the grid to some fraction of x if the power is not being used locally?[/quote]
Yes – Kelly Broughton, the former Development Services Director for SD (responsible for zoning enforcement, etc.), Kelly Broughton, was a landscape architect. I’m not sure who replaced him, if anyone, but anything would be an improvement.