There's a homeowner in Windham who waited four months to find out if his solar project cost thirty thousand dollars more than he thought. This episode is about that wait, and what it teaches about a year defined by numbers that don't show up on time. Yehuda traces a line from crane work on Aroostook County wind farms to interconnection queues at Central Maine Power, walks through what the loss of the federal tax credit actually did to a typical Maine solar payback period, and explains why the Public Utilities Commission just brought in an outside auditor to check how utilities calculate what homeowners get charged. Plus a new plug-in solar law, and why it won't solve the problem everyone thinks it will.