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I mean, I think that it's probably not a good idea for this guy to try to go fully off-grid if he has access to the grid, but for the sake of discussion, if one were honestly wanting to try it and one is in the UK, I'd think that one is probably rather better off adding a wind turbine, since some of the time that the sun isn't shining, the wind is blowing.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/322789/quarterly-wind-speed-average-in-the-united-kingdom-uk/
The UK is one of the worst places in the world in terms of solar potential:
https://globalsolaratlas.info/
But it's one of the best in terms of wind potential:
https://globalwindatlas.info/
Right but he’s not serious, he’s just doing a “in theory, what would it look like?”