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The reality of residential solar

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The U.S. residential solar industry has seen better days.

Electricity bill credits in rooftop solar-saturated states like California are a fraction of what they once were. Tariffs have made components more expensive, just as federal tax credits are set to sunset. Anti-renewables legislation is casting a long and dark shadow, and a series of bankruptcies among established names in the space has cast further doubt on whether the dollars and cents still make dollars and sense.

But at least one man thinks residential solar can reach a point of profitability. In…

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