How much did your panels cost, installed, without subsides?
What you are describing is not what I have seen, and I live in Arizona.
I’m in North Yorkshire, in the UK. It’s midday, currently -2 degrees and cloudy... And right now it is generating 1,670w. It hasn’t hit peak yet; that’s well over 4kW and we won’t get the full benefit of that until after the spring equinox.
The system is comprised of 12 410w Canadian Solar panels, a Sofar HYD 6000 inverter, and Pylontech US-3000 battery which is charging from solar.
We’ve got the washing machine, dishwasher, tumble drier and electric fan oven on right now so are using 2760kw. Stick the cooker on too, and we might hit 5.5kw.
The total spend was £8k but that included a partial house rewire with 16 energy monitoring plugs, critical load split, voltage optimiser to stabilise the grid input, Evohome multizone heating controls, and a Raspberry pi which I use to control and monitor the entire stack.
And the cost of the scaffolding for a week, as we had some roof repairs done at the same time.
No grants or subsidies.
AC units pull a lot of amps. No way is solar going to keep them going in the desert during the summer. But the elites don’t give a chit about the comfort of the little people.
That's what I want to know too. I just paid a buck a watt.