"Zey vere fine zo long ass ze zun vass shining!" OK, Plan B...
If you look at the solar collectors for street lamps...it was roughly a 1 by 1 foot panel. Maybe if it’d shined everyday....there’d be enough juice on that small of a panel. Realistically, It probably should have been a 3 x 3 foot panel but the wind would have shaken the pole so much that it probably would have eventually fallen over.