In most cases Solar is a big Scam. With that said, I Solar powered my well because it would cost at least $200K to get electricity up my mountain to the well. My system works flawlessly for my well, which is set to only run 2 hours a day MAX from 12-2 in the afternoon, I also ran power to 2 other out buildings for lights..., fed by my Solar setup. It will run a full size fridge forever and lights too, but that is about it except during the day you can do m a lot mor, but you better make sure the batteries are fully charged by sundown, or it will crap out before daybreak.
Magnum 240volt 40Amp Inverter
8, 6 volt 220AMP Hour Golf cart batteries
8 350 watt panels
1 60 amp MPPT charge controller
I too, think solar as it's promoted by the left is hogwash (grid shouldn't depend on solar, nor does it save the planet from warmageddon). Nor should it be forced onto us or subsidized.
And I have solar for my home. I installed a small version 3 years ago, liked it, and upgraded it a year later. It's enough to power my now all-electric home (3 years ago I replaced both of my gas appliances with a variable speed heat pump and heat strips for the home, and a hybrid water heater with a built-in heat pump on the water tank). I also use it to charge our EV for over 1,200 miles per month (home charged miles, not counting charging away from home if we take it on a trip). Over the year it provides 81% of the power we consume, pulling the other 19% from the grid (mostly in the 4 coldest months).
So not enough to be off-grid. But I have enough experience and telemetry data exported from my inverters into a SQL database to study and know how much of each component would need to be upgraded if the Dims keep making energy harder to come by and more expensive (except on election years). I'm also a bit concerned by the fact the Dims are also the party that openly hates Christians ("Christian nationalism") and openly wants to quell decent. While I'm not exactly expecting us to have a mark-of-the-beat type experience here in the U.S. in my lifetime, I wouldn't be surprised if the Dims keep making energy harder and harder to access (or too costly to use) unless you bow to their hedonism gods.
Solar capacity: 20kW
Inverter continuous AC power capacity: 18kW
Battery storage: 92kWh