My idea too, but it's important to realize trees are a commodity in the desert. Hard to figure if their removal for more solar generation would be a bigger benefit than the shading and cooling they provide in summer. My house is adobe, modern on one half and very old on the other but earthen on both sides. It operates on the thermal mass cycle. There is roughly a 12 hour lag between the adobe's absorption of solar energy from the outside and its pentration to the inside. Deciduous trees allow the house to receive more sunshine in the winter and less in the summer; exactly what I want. It worries me a bit to screw around with that balance by cutting back or down enough trees to allow more sun on the roof to increase the number of panels. If I can geerate more power with a less shady roof will I just need more power to run mechanical cooling which I now rarely use? A conundrum.

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