The cheap alternative here as far as power is concerned is grid electricity and have natural gas turbines for electrical backup. Blackouts never last more than

The cheap alternative here as far as power is concerned is grid electricity and have natural gas turbines for electrical backup. Blackouts never last more than a day in this area, and very rarely that long, so being able to run the air conditioning is not important, you need to run lights, security cameras, and the door locks. However much they are generating with solar cells it's not even a fraction as much as they would save in switching to a geothermal heatpump system for the heating and cooling needs, which would have been a fraction of the cost of the solar system, and a minute fraction of the ongoing costs including battery replacement. This is about certain people getting contracts to sell stuff to the government. Anyone competent who is really interested in a good solution wouldn't have built this system.