Solar power's future grows brighter in N.J.

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If ever there was a perfect place to install solar panels, Pratik Dalal thought he had one.

The energy-saving panels would have been installed on the rear roof of his Franklin Township home, facing the sun-drenched south but out of view of passersby.

"I have no homeowners behind my house," said Dalal, who lives with his wife and three children. "There's nothing but woods in the back, so no one can see it."

Still, by a vote of 2-0, with three members of the five-person board inactive, the homeowner association with oversight over aesthetics in his development flatly rejected his request last fall.

His case isn't unique.

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