No skin in the game but hate when government mandates stuff like that. As an electrician I’ve never dabbled with solar myself, but the maintenance of this stuff sounds horrible. Lots of electronic components = pain in the ass.
Pretty sure I read an article or mention somewhere of California requiring landlords to have to install electric vehicle charge stations if a tenant gets an electric vehicle. This sounds horrible. Depending on age of building, size of service entrance, and distance of entrance to parking, this can be a substantial cost to install.
Maintenance of solar is a nightmare? There are three components to a typical solar array.
1. Panels. No moving parts, typically 20-30 year warranty, very little ever goes wrong with them unless a poor manufacturer makes a bad batch.
2. Inverter. May have one moving part, a cooling fan, but they've mostly engineered those out. Otherwise a well proven piece of equipment that again has a very low failure rate and is typically warrantied for at least 10 years. Changing one out requires you disconnect a single DC feed and a single AC feed, not hard if you do have to do it.
3. Wiring and a junction box. Again, nothing complex here.
I'd strongly encourage you, especially as an electrician, to actually learn about something like solar before imposing your political opinion on it. It's not hard, you already have the background knowledge base to quickly learn about it and information is widely available. What's more, there is great opportunity for electricians in the field. You're far better than the person who reflexively decides they don't like something they admittedly know little about because their political tribe tells them they should. Especially since you as an electrician are equipped to learn and understand the truth of the matter far better than the members of your political tribe who are telling you how to think on this specific subject.
As far as the second part of your comment, again facts matter. For residential leases signed, renewed or extend on or after July 1, 2015, landlords are required to approve a tenant’s written request to install an electric vehicle charging station at the tenant’s parking space if the tenant enters into a written agreement which includes requirements regarding the installation, use, maintenance and removal of the charging station, requires the tenant pay for all modifications, and requires the tenant to maintain a $1,000,000 general liability insurance policy. That's a far cry from "California requiring landlords to have to install electric vehicle charge stations if a tenant gets an electric vehicle.", they simply have to allow the tenant to pay to install it and remove it when they leave. That imposes pretty much no burden on the landlord at all, certainly not anything "horrible"?