Indeed. It's convoluted. I had to deal with the contractor, the city planning department, and AEP to get this done. I've been at it since April. I was hoping to have solar for the summer, my most expensive months. But it worked out that as soon as the dog days of summer ended, I finally got the net meter.
If I want to upgrade the system, I have to go through all that again.
I have thoughts of building out a barbecue trailer with a PV roof that I can plug into the house with a grid tie inverter from Amazon. It's not a permanent structure nor part of the house, so no permits. And there are no rules for barbecue trailers other than traffic rules. And maybe I can rent it out on occasion.
Yeah I have been looking into making “mobile” units that I could put some batteries and maybe even hook a computer up in there and mine some Monero, 😂