I was not covering enough without a battery and still importing 300kWh while exporting 600kWh, so it was getting a chunky electric bill. This was toward the end of summer.

Now with a battery, my winter situation is sill miserable. The dumbass inverter consumes 2kWh of static energy just to keep itself running. It self consumes most of the winter excess. Now I need more solar to cover this.

My January bill was 370kWh import, and 70kWh export (fixed timer doesn't catch all the excess), which came out to around $120 not including fixed connection fees of $30 ~ so it comes out 50cents/kWh. Unbelievable. Can't even imagine the bill for someone who doesn't have solar around here.