for households they're mostly enough. but not yet that cheap to power industrialization - you still need hydrocarbons for that.
Worse yet. When grid is down, some grid-tied systems will not allow any local power use either.
Few years back, nearly all grid-tied inverters had this problem. Now situation is slowly improving, with "grid-interactive" systems which do allow local use of solar power with no grid.
"We get some sunlight indoors but I can't seem to think of a way to go solar," she said. "Why must people living in apartments suffer?"
This sounds like a good case for balcony solar. It's popular for German apartments:
"How Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels"
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/how-germany-outfi...
alephnerd•9mo ago