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Your post caused me to do some Googling. 

First I did Jerusalem Farm, followed by Intentional communities then Land Trust Home and lastly J.F. on Facebook. Someone did not like the phrase VIP!!

Intentional community was in the ball park of what I suspected.

What an interesting mix. A bit of Amish mixed in with Catholicism with a touch of the movie, "For Richer or Poorer" (Tim Allen and Kirstie Alley).

In the direction of the social mix of, "So a Rabbi, a Priest, and a Minister Walk Into a Bar..."

I cannot quite get my head around the Catholic piece. The big "C" is all about power, money, control, etc... I don't see "them" in the direction of communal living, or is that phrase in to strong of a direction..??..

Shifting gears, the free version of google Earth and someone who is really good with it, can find you your open south facing roofs as an encompassing start. Work out the ownership details from there... You might even be able to find an already produced list for solar sales leads, which would be looking for the same attributes, south facing, solar access and ownership. But that said, do not underestimate low pitch East/West roofs. With PV so cheap today, the actual outputs and ROI are not half bad. People are even putting them on North side roofs because the crews are already there, setup, etc.. It is cheap enough for that now...

Additionally, check out these guys:

https://www.santansolar.com/product-category/solar-panels/used-solar-panels/

They are a good company, and if you are looking to "bottom scrape" on pricing.

They check the panels for VOC, etc.. good shipping crates etc..

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william fitch
Owner
www.WeAreSolar.com
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Thank you for sharing, Adam! Looks like a really cool project.

Sharing this with @Kyle Combes in case this is of interest to you!

Adam, great post. I remember talking with you about affordable housing at SOLAR 2023. Hopefully, someone from the On-line community will step up to help you right away, but in the longer term, I was wondering if you had considered going for one of the Prizes mentioned by NREL/DOE at the conference.   There were categories that sounded like might fit your ideas. https://americanmadechallenges.org/  And going out on a limb here, but since the competitions mention partnerships with other organizations, there could be a way that ASES could assist as a partner if funding was received for such. Debbie Brodt-Giles with NREL who presented on it at the conference mentioned affordable housing as an attractive idea for funding.

Adam nice project there,

looks pretty wholesome, 

Did some research on this and came up with the following references, 

Google has created software that can calculate potential solar savings based on your home's roof shape and local weather patterns by utilizing machine learning and 3D models within Google Earth images. Essentially, Project Sunroof allows you to measure the benefits of rooftop solar for your home using Google Maps. 

Sun Roof

Also came across these folks 

Roof Graf

I am sure as solar becomes more commonplace the demand for this type software you are alluding to will be out there for all to use and as software technicians, programmers modifly towards an ever increasing solar community. 

Also there is this company out there that seems to be barking up the same tree as your request called  Aurora Solar as it might be good to check out some of their products as well as once you get the addresses to plug them into some of these type programs should be easy enough. 

Aurora Solar

Hopes that this helps some with your vision and Good LUCK  out there on those grasslands..

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Timothy Mcbride
CEO/Owner
Sol-Era R & D
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