Solar Panel Installed Over Eyebrow Vent

One solar installer is telling me the vent stacks can be cut shorter and panels installed over.

Solar panel installed over eyebrow vent. 25 year rated solar panel 10 watt 50 000 hour rated fan 15 years at 9 hrs day 2700 rpm 39 cfm two ball bearing fan. One of the primary benefits is the money saving factor both for the installer and the solar customer. I have info and can post a link to the manufacturers site if private links are ok. Mounting solar panels over passive attic vents i have come across a manufacturer of vents that has actually taken this into consideration and has literature on the subject.

The ridge vent itself always works as a passive vent 24 hours a day rain or shine. There are 2 vent stacks on the roof that limit the number of panels we can install. Basically says its ok to mount panels 4 6 above the top of the vents. Two are bathroom vents metal and one is a sewer vent pvc.

I am a homeowner and am looking into solar panels for our home. The fans work whenever the sun shines. The code now recognizes that plumbing vents may be in the way but they can actually share the space with solar panels. A complete rewrite of irc section p3103 1 regarding rooftop dwv terminations now specifically allows solar panels to be placed over the top of plumbing vents.

I m planning out my installation and i have three vents which will have solar panels over them. The fan blades spin but they don t lower the attic temperature at all. Since roof vent pipes prevent a customer from utilizing a lot of their roof space they are being limited to the number of panels they can fit on their roof and therefore losing potential savings that additional panels would have generated. Cost and installation time.