Electricity net controllers here are pretty happy when I boil some ocean on a sunny day. In fact at times they give me money for it. And then I can donate sats to indie content creators using podcasting 2.0 features.

But I think you are one of those people that threw out that baby with the bath water long ago.

Where is here for you?

Netherlands, on an ANWB, variable, energy contract [0]

[0] https://www.anwb.nl/energie (Dutch)

The kind of use you describe is almost certainly a small minority of the whole.

It’s certainly growing. We have many issues here where solar panel are turned off at peak hours. People get less and less money for delivering power to the net, and indeed sometimes have to pay to do so. This will only increase.

In fact solar panel sales are dropping very fast.