The storms and even falling branches have not damaged the panels. We don’t see golf ball sized hail in N GA. The panels are covered by insurance just like the shingles are (State Farm).
*MIGHT* have 2 days of snow cover per winter.
WE will exceed our anticipated annual production from solar. Sure it’s not even across the 12 months of the year. Only an idiot would expect it to be. Inclination of the sun, leaf cover, cloud cover at various altitudes, tadda yadda; it’s gonna vary production.
As I wrote before ...
We looked at all that prior to design and purchase.
Solar is not a panacea, but it DOES go a long way to sheltering us from the rising costs, controls and vulnerability of the commercial grid.
We live in the country. We can get by quite well during outages. With some serious adjustments, we could live and operate off grid if there a long term outage.
Folks are free to be detractors. WE know it works *as anticipated* for our family home.
I rent, and I have my own solar cells and electric generators.
I run a good portion of my home off of it.
Still, I think single homes are the type of solar system
that works best. When you set up a massive system, you
face issues you don’t at a single family dwelling.
Saving the electricity for use at times other than when
your solar farm is collecting, becomes an issue.
Transmission of the solar over long distances is an issue.
Dissipation of energy over that long distance.
I support folks developing their own electric system.
As for massive public projects, not so much.