Solar in Charlotte has sun, hail, and a split between shaded old roofs and long new ones. A Myers Park or Dilworth plane may lose the afternoon to oaks and dormers. A Huntersville or Ballantyne ranch may offer a clear south side and a pine at one corner. Hail is not a rumor in this Piedmont. An array on a bruised or aging covering means the next roof opens every bracket. Lake-facing houses get wind across the water that a sheltered street does not. Nobody should design this from the sky alone. Ask for a person on the roof and at the panel.
Renew a tired covering before mounts go down. Ask how each anchor is flashed and who comes back when a thunderstorm leaves a drip at a bracket. Ask how the modules come off when the roof is due again. Chopped bungalow geometry and a simple subdivision plane are different drawings. Vent pipes, skylights, and front gables steal area. Say what is actually up there. Attic heat in this city is fierce. The roof deck and the ventilation still matter under the array.
Name the modules and the inverter. Say if the electronics are on each module or in one box, and who notices when output goes quiet after hail or a failed string. Older intown services can be small for a backfed breaker and a disconnect. Find that first. Ownership belongs in the same talk: who keeps the equipment, and who removes it to open the deck. Newer suburban services are often larger and still need the same written names.
Permits and the utility's permission to run are the job. Ask who files them and whether the system stays dark until that permission exists. Hail, shade, and wind off the lakes are the site facts. This is not a salt-coast design and not a snow-load mountain design. Skip any story about a monthly account. Structure, flashing, and hardware names are the useful subjects. A neighbor's pine on the south line is a fact, not a surprise after the rails are up.
Say Charlotte, the roof's age, and whether oaks cover the sunny slope. Solar here is a hail-country layout on either a shaded street or a wide new plane. Call the number on this page.