It doesn’t cut it, it was 2 degrees this morning and 10 now in North Alabama. Heat pump hardly shuts off, can’t get the house above 65 and supplementing with 3 portable 1500 watt heaters. It’s warmer in my 3 greenhouses right now which burn propane.
True that, fellow Alabamian. I have a variable speed heat pump supplemented with heat strips. Thus, I'm depending a lot on heat strips, at times my entire electrical load is 11kW (over 10kW is for heating). My load has gone up and down a lot today, so my solar (maxing at 17kW today) was able to keep up for a while and charge my home solar batteries some without me pulling from the grid for a while, but not nearly enough charge is in my batteries to power my all-electric home through the night tonight. I'll pull from the grid a lot tonight.
That's the thing about solar and wind. Even in a seemingly perfect environment like mine it's not 100% dependable. For the whole year I'll pull about 20% of my power from the grid, with the other 80% coming from solar. That's not shabby, especially considering my two-story house is all-electric, and my wife and I do most of our driving in our EV. So kudos to the solar system, it's saving me enough money month-by-month and is on track to pay for itself in about the 10th year; I'll still have years left beyond that on the warranties for the batteries and panels.
But the Dims are crazy in thinking solar and wind are complete replacements for fossil fuels even in a good situation for solar like I'm in. And it's certainly not a one-size-fits-all plan anyway.