ok, I think I misunderstood what you meant. Yes, when the sun is shining and the power grid is alive, you can use your power. People are usually shocked to fi

ok, I think I misunderstood what you meant. Yes, when the sun is shining and the power grid is alive, you can use your power. People are usually shocked to find that when there is a power outage, they generally can't use their solar panels to have power (unless they have a battery backup system which can isolate them from the grid). But the costs for installing consumer solar are high enough that these systems only had a reasonable payback period when people could sell the power back to the utility at a very high rate. I see that in CA when they finally had to lower that subsidy, demand for consumer solar is estimated to have dropped by 80%: https://calmatters.org/environment/climate-change/2024/01/california-solar-demand-plummets/ https://calmatters.org/environment/climate-change/2024/01/ca... While solar panel costs have dropped very low, the soft costs for installing rooftop solar (labor, permitting, etc.) have only gone up, so one off rooftop solar will always be more expensive than utility solar.