"Bureaucrats"? Where might they be? When I tried getting into the roof-top incentive program, all I encountered were PEA people. Had to hire a PEA engineer to help do the paperwork on "their" system layout. Had to go sit in a meeting and file the paperwork to PEA engineers and managers... if government bureaucrats were about, I didn't notice. PEA approved the inverter list (extremely slowly). Some inverters on PEA list were not on MEA list, and vice versa on MEA list but not PEA list... how can that be when they use the same equipment. Thousands of approved inverters on lists in Australia, California, Europe... but PEA had to go one by one and test each inverter... gee I wonder why. Can't put your panels on your carport roof.... must be on the house roof. Why, "because". Every damn excuse to slow things down.
In my opinion, the problem lies in giving legally mandated monopolistic power to a private company, in a country with corruption ripe everywhere. No way for "bureaucrats" to do anything meaningful, even if they wanted to, and could turn their noses up to the tea money. Either nationalize the grid, or open it to competition (ugh, even greater rats nest of wires... and the consummate electrocutions). Neither option will ever happen though.
ytrewq - good on you for having the drive to get that done (allegedly ).