[RE-wrenches] Fed tax credit?

[Dave Click]

It's my understanding that shingles would not be included, just as you 
can't build a house and then claim that it's a 5kW PV rack, for an 
$80,000 tax credit. The act of installing PV doesn't necessarily require 
that the shingles be replaced.

Electrical panel work may be OK if, say, you're putting a 30A PV breaker 
in a 100A panel-- the addition of the PV likely requires a change to the 
panel to remain code compliant. Similarly, if code requires you to 
upgrade the service for your interconnection to be legal, then I would 
say that that change is eligible for that ITC.

On 2012/5/17 0:46, Alex Cozine wrote:
> To add to the question, what about electrical panel work, or even
> service upgrade?
>
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> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Jesse Dahl <dahlsolar at gmail.com
> <mailto:dahlsolar at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Hello,
>
>     I remember someone asking something kind of similar before, but
>     couldn't find it in the archives.  Can replacing the shingles be
>     considered when calculating the total cost of a PV system for
>     Federal tax credit?
>
>     Thanks as always!
>
>     Jesse
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