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You can also buy just the panels and install them yourself if youre handy. They are generally just rails you bolt to a support beam in your roof. Mount the rails, water seal the penetration points, rack the panels, plug one into another, drill and seal an ingress hole for the wiring.
Instead of paying 30-40k for an installer to do it all, you can likely pay 5-10k for panels/inverters/tie in box and another 5k for an electrician to wire it all in.
Okay, but unless you have a proper harness and other safety equipment, you face a heavy risk of severely, likely permanently, injuring yourself if you slip up.
Seems like a fairly cheap investment
Hmmm I wonder if I still get the rebates if I diy it. Ah well, I suppose it doesn't matter until the two maples in front of my neighbor's house fall down.
You still have to buy the panels/etc. i dont see why they wouldn't apply, but I haven't done it yet so I can't answer that unfortunately.