I would bet the cost of the solar panels was only a fraction of the total costs. The fact of the matter is that individually owned and operated power generation

I would bet the cost of the solar panels was only a fraction of the total costs. The fact of the matter is that individually owned and operated power generation doesn’t make sense for a variety of reasons, which is why we invented the power grid. It would be prohibitively expensive to run your own natural gas turbine at home as well, even though you have a pipe going straight to your house. So instead we build natural gas power plants that turn a profit.