Well, that makes sense for you. At my latitude, solar would have to be mounted in a way as to resist winds clocked over 90 MPH and be able to track the sun (limited to 8 hrs/day in the dead of winter) at nearly the horizon. It just doesn't work here.
Well, yeah it will, barring the wind...
It just costs way more. about double what it does elsewhere. Where eight panels seems to be a fairly average system down in Appalachia, up in here it's twelve or more. And more battery too - and that is still no cause to throw out the jenny.
The feller I am patterning after has 16 panels and eight batteries., and he makes sufficient power, clouds or not, even in the dead of winter. Four circuits (because he built it 4 pans at a time) through two controllers. He hardly ever uses all of it at once, using one or the other, unless it is cloudy, except for in the winter. And he stays lit. And the only time he requires more than it can give him is when he fires up the stick welder in his shop.
Now I am using his formula - 4 panels and two batteries at a time... Live with that for a couple years and add 4/2 more... and so on. That way, 15 years in or so, when it starts to fail, it won't fail all at once. And of course, it is more affordable out of pocket too.
I ain't going that big though, as I am trying to use turbines in a waterfall for my main power, providing I can figure out how to get that power from the creek to the cabin - It is shield country, so I still don't know how I am going to bring the water (and electric) over buried 4 ft deep. it is a bother, and my main concern. Not knowing that, I am starting with solar/jenny. Providing I can have my turbines, I will stop the solar at 8/4 or 8/6.
But I mean to say it can be done.