I have friends in Texas going through rolling blackouts, because it is so cold the utility company is trying to preserve the system. My friends are complaining about being freezing at home and that they have never seen such cold weather in all the years they have lived there. If half the roofs in Texas and other southern states had solar power wouldn’t that help significantly? I know some states had snow, and the snow can cover the solar panels causing them not to work, but the snow is not all day long every day of these frigid temperatures. On larger properties people can put the panels on the ground and easily clear them off when it snows.

Do you think there should be legislation in the southern states for large homebuilders of new homes to have to put in solar? Would that bring the prices of solar down by creating larger purchases and more competition? Is the current profit margin very large for solar companies per panel? Or, per install?