Every analysis of power sourcing should include a factor of independence. There’s great value in operating without monthly payments or risk of shutdowns beyond your control.
Solar power works - in space. Using a set of panels, in geosynchronous orbit above the earth, at all times above the weather, and using a microwave transmission beam to direct the power back to an earth station, MIGHT be a way to make solar power reliable at last. Otherwise its purpose is pretty much confined to niche application, like mountaintop locations where the construction of transmission lines is out of the question. Solar power is not produced in sufficient quantity to be able to punch through thousands of miles of interlocked high-tension lines, and night does fall on every part of the earth.
I would love to be energy independent on the farm, but I am too far North to get a good return on solar (especially in winter) and winds are generally not strong enough to make that viable.