When I say it backs up to national forest, I mean it literally. I have about 6 feet off the back of the cabin before the trees are marked. Everywhere else is surrounded by 40 foot tall trees I can't touch. Our only land otherwise, aside from the driveway, is deep in a wooded ravine and it would...
I did. That's on a flat westward facing roof. I don't think I could do more than 6 panels on that section anyways, I'm nearly at the width of the porch. Shading on that section of the roof isn't too bad, I just don't have excess land to put more panels on.
My buddy and I have a 600 sqft 2 br cabin in Northern Georgia that's fully off grid. It's surrounded by national forest and has limited sunlight and limited open space around it and the current solar system is not working well (12V charger, 120V inverter, 100Ah worth of batteries, 100W panel)...