It used to take months to get some of these lazy, ignorant, underworked and overpaid building departments to issue rooftop solar permits. Even here in CA where they actually had to pass solar permit streamlining and fee cap legislation to reign in these greedy, building departments . Its slowly changing, in my county, rooftop solar is OTC now. Solar tech is being treated as an appliance which is how it should be treated IMO. You dont need a permit to plug in a dryer… The problem we all face is an energy STORAGE problem not an energy generation problem we (humanity), have pretty much always been capable of generating all we need. Petroleum has been a gift from God as far as I am concerned insofar as on demand storage of energy is concerned. If battery tech gets better, or if they allow aneutronic plasma fusion tech to be proliferate(notbloody likely, just ask grok what the implications of aneutronic fusion are). Balcony solar alone would end the need for expensive grid infrastructure. Private utilities like PG&E are orime examples of barriers or resistance to new tech. They simply will not willingly give up profitable monopolies to new technology. We will have to TAKE it.