SBA 504 Green Loan Program Explained: How Geography Affects Hardware Installation Costs

Yes, it would, and I think, you know, you also have issues where, if there's shading around the building, you're going, you could have some issues there. For example, we actually had a property now who, it's a hotel, they want to put the system on the roof, but they're also going to have car ports in the parking area, and they said, you know, we'd like to have some of it lower down, easier accessible, for accessibility, it's easier for the installation to have it right there.

And we basically put in some caveats into the report stating that, okay, it needs to be on the southern side of the building, where there's no shading, they should not put up trees on that side in the landscaping, and those are concerns that you don't have with a hotel, a four or five story hotel that has parking areas all around it, there's no shading on the roof. So those, the truth is, those come in just as much as the location. So it does matter, but honestly, in the bigger picture, you're not talking about this huge, huge difference.

The bigger problem comes into play when you have a building that has a small footprint, and then you have no roof space, and then you have to say, okay, well, what else do we have, and where can we put this system? That could be a potential problem.