Solar Ready - What this means

Good article. Homes can be built ready for solar power

Key Points on houses that are not solar ready:

• There's often no place for the equipment to be installed (the inverter, wiring, for solar water heating the piping)
  
• It will be difficult and more expensive to put in the wiring and the piping
• The great financial benefit of including the solar system in the initial financing will be lost.
• If the house is not solar ready, solar usually won't be installed.
• Solar needs a south facing roof with no obstacles (chimney, etc.) within 30 degrees.

Since when a house is built making it solar ready is a minimum cost, it's surprising it's not required that new houses be built that are solar ready. For both water and electricity.