[Evans, Marv]

I'm repeating myself here a few times over, since I've commented on other threads.
I got solar installed, going online in June of 2016. I haven't paid an electric bill since last year. That was the first year we've run the house (3.2K s.f. - all electric except for the two propane tankless water heaters) along with my wife's EV for a full year. I paid $288 at true up time.
My system is 25 panels generating a high of around 52+ kWh/day(up to 1.3 mWh/month) at peak in summer and about 6 to 7K kWh/mo. at the low during winter. I paid $29K for the system and got the 30% tax credit at the end of the year, so end cost was around $19K. The system generates 110% of my average useage over a three year peiod before installation. If I had to do it over, I'd have had a few more panels installed.
SDG&E has some of the highest - maybe the highest - rates in the country. They just announced another hefty increase. In prior years, I'd sell back about 3 mWh to them for the huge amount of $100 credit at 2 to 4 cents per kWh. I decided to use that up by charging my wife's EV. My siystem paid for itself around last year - so over a period of about six years.
My main satisfaction is that I'm preventing myself from getting screwed by the utility and gas companies.
Of course the Utiiity and the State are coniving to make healthy cuts into the advantages solar owners have. The state is plotting to initiate a mileage tax on vehicles, & the utility is coniving to have solar customers pay a fee for using the grid system.