Beyond several of the obvious aspects that affect solar, being shading and pitch of the roof and actually orientation towards the South or Southwest.

Some of the factors that come in to play, one being temperature and a lot of people don’t think about this and its counterintuitive actually is that the cooler the temperature, the higher the voltage and the more production you get out the panels. So actually, L.A. is divided into multiple microclimates, Southern California even more microclimates, so it’s important to evaluate which microclimate you’re actually in so that you can determine the actual production of the system. One other aspect is when you’re near the beach there’s actually cooler temperatures, and the system will operate better. One thing that people don’t realize too is that when you’re near the beach there’s a marine layer, especially here in Southern California and that marine layer actually acts as of reflector so when the sun is on its way up in the horizon the sun will actually reflect off of the marine layer down onto the panels and wake them up a little bit earlier in the morning and the system will actually turn on a little bit earlier and the cool temperatures will actually raise the voltage and increase the production, so some of these aspects of solar being the marine layer which would people think that it might reduce production and cooler temperatures, those two things will actually increase production.