This is a regulated industry where as soon as you touch high-power generation, generally both the plans and the actual installation need to be done and/or reviewed by certified personnel or everything they build will be prohibited to connect to the network and thus simply worthless. This is not a ___domain where random experimentation is permitted. Their first step should be hiring someone who knows the relevant local regulations and can advise them on what is and isn't an acceptable way to proceed in their specific regulatory environment, because currently not only they don't know how to do it, they don't even know which things they are absolutely required to know.
Yes, there are specific parallels to the Wright brothers - if you want to make and fly a plane exactly like the Wright brothers did, well, you can't simply do that anymore, you need to follow FAA regulations and safety standards which didn't exist back then; and recommending that someone "just do it" would be irresponsible.
A bit off-topic, but: does the FAA really have authority over airspace up to 10 meters high? For non-commercial self-created craft operated by their constructor? When used far from civilisation?
They definitely have authority at 30 feet above the surface, but the wright bros aircraft likely would operate under part 103 which governs ultralights and is fairly lax on regulation as long as you aren't operating near restricted airspace.
For example, with an ultralight you do not need any sort of pilot's license or medical certificate.
EDIT: Actually the wright bros aircraft would be too heavy to qualify as ultralight nowadays. But with today's materials I'd bet if they did it again they could get it under the weight limit.
I wonder if there is an opportunity to deregulate whatever that makes sense and isn’t related to safety. I don’t know anything about Energy industry but like any industry, I’m positive that there is a lot of crud and inefficiencies built up over time.
There is opportunity to do a lot of things, but it'll never happen unless it gets tied into some broader agenda. "Enabling the common man to run their own power company" isn't something that gets people to the polls, so I seriously doubt it'll ever happen.
See also: those "crazy/wacky/funny laws in <city/state/country>" books and listicles that feature antiquated laws that are still on the books (some of which are most certainly unconstitutional) but nobody cares about enforcing them, so there exists no political will to repeal them.
Yes, there are specific parallels to the Wright brothers - if you want to make and fly a plane exactly like the Wright brothers did, well, you can't simply do that anymore, you need to follow FAA regulations and safety standards which didn't exist back then; and recommending that someone "just do it" would be irresponsible.