A home with skylights is stylish and uses natural light that gives the entire home a positive mood all throughout the day. Thus, it feels like you’re blocking the skylights with solar panels in Golden, CO. While solar panels are energy-efficient, nothing compares to the natural glow of the sun and the natural mood it brings to our surroundings.
Fortunately, you can install panels even if your roof has skylights. Solar panel installation specialists, such as Roper Roofing and Solar, can place your solar panels without obstructing the skylight’s natural sunlight draw. Even if you have multiple skylights on your roof, solar panel specialists can cut and reshape solar racking to make sure they can accommodate your skylight’s shapes.
Solar panel installation specialists are also responsible for selecting the most appropriate panel shapes that can go around and prevent any issues with your roof and skylight as much as possible. In doing so, we believe that you can own an energy-efficient system that powers your appliances while enjoying the natural glow of the sun.
If you need a primer on how solar panel specialists install around skylights, vents, and other roofing structures, read about them in Green Ridge Solar’s post below.
Chimneys are one of the most common roof obstructions when installing solar panels. They can also be one of the more challenging roof obstructions to deal with.
Because chimneys are normally bulky objects, they can take up a lot of space. This means that solar panels will need to be installed around the perimeter of the chimney while also maintaining a reasonable distance. Installing solar panels right up against a chimney is not advisable, as it can reduce clearance needed for chimney maintenance and potentially cause sediment buildup on the solar panels, especially next to brick chimneys.
Not only can chimneys be bulky, they can also be quite tall. This presents an issue when considering shading of the solar panels. Because the sun shifts throughout the day and year, it’s important to consider the path a chimney’s shadow will take. If that shadow falls on one or more solar panels, it can greatly affect the solar production.
Thankfully, the negative effects of shading can be greatly reduced with solar optimizers. Solar optimizers are a type of solar inverter that takes the DC power produced by each individual solar panel and sends it to the main inverter. By using solar optimizers, the effects of shading can be isolated to just those individual solar panels being shaded instead of the whole string of solar panels.
Skylights are another common roof obstruction solar installers must work around. Skylights can come in a variety of shapes and sizes, as well as orientations and placement within a roof.
The good news is that skylights present very little shade risk, as they are often inset within a roof. But even if they are not completely flush with the roof, skylights typically do not shade solar panels.
The larger issue with skylights is installing solar panels around the skylights’ layout. If a roof only has one skylight, it can be easy to install racking and solar panels around it. But if multiple skylights are installed at various distances and orientations, installing the racking and solar panels can get difficult or impossible.
Thankfully, solar panels are modular and can be placed in multiple locations and orientations on a roof. Solar racking can be cut down to fit tight areas, and the solar panel system as a whole can be placed at multiple spots along a roof. (Continued)
If you have yet to find a dependable solar panel installation specialist in Golden, CO, you can always count on us at Roper Roofing and Solar to provide you with the best services that guarantee zero damage to your roof material and structures. Contact us today to learn more about everything that we can do for you.
