What's sad is they'd spend all this money to put this system in Alberta, when, environmentally, they'd have been far better off to have paid to put a grid-tie-only system on the house of a low income family in the arizona desert, which would have provided a MUCH larger offset than the grid power they'd consume in their own house. Probably have gotten 3-4x more energy for their dollar. Would have been even better to have invested in an energy company making an even more efficient commercial-sized solar farm.

Oh well, it's their money.