Solar in Fargo has to be described without a fairy tale about the heating season. Snow sits on shallow slopes. The days are short when the furnace is doing all the work. An array is not a plan to run the burner. The visit is about structure, the covering, the mounts, and the electrical service. If the talk starts at the meter, bring it back to the attic and the panel.
Ice dams and a warm attic are the local roof facts. Do not attach rails to a slope that is already wetting the eave every winter. Fix the heat loss and the covering first, or the array becomes an obstacle on the next tear-off. Ask how the feet are flashed and whether they make the eave harder to keep clear. A photo from above has not felt a warm attic or a soft deck at the dam line. Someone has to go up and then go into the attic.
Basement panels in older Fargo houses may be full, recessed, or sized for a different life. Ask what service is there. Ask where the inverter will sit so it can be reached in January, not in a drift or an unheated dead corner. Name the modules and the inverter. Ask who owns the equipment and who you call when it goes quiet. Shade from a mature tree on the south side of an older lot will erase the drawing. South-side new lots are clearer and more exposed to wind. Say which one you have.
Wind uplift on the open edge of town is a hardware question. Hail is a glass question. Neither belongs in a guess about the meter. You are deciding whether this roof, this attic, and this panel are ready. Snow cover is a reason to talk about slope and access, not a reason to invent a winter result. If a roof claim or an ice-dam repair is open, finish it before any foot goes on the shingles.
Say the neighborhood, the age of the roof, and whether dams are already a fight. Mention the panel and any south shade. Leave the story about carrying the heating season at home. Call the number on this page.