You running the entire house on 36kw?
I wish I could do that..
My house is very efficient, and I am also cheating a bit.
All my major heating is natural gas. The furnace, water heater, stove/oven, and clothes dryer are all gas.
And then I am in Southern California on the edge of a dessert. Dead of winter hear is about 40F (4.5C) for the overnight low. I have the furnace set at 71F (22C) so I am not asking for a huge temp difference. My walls are bad, maybe R6, but the windows are good Mill Guard triple pane heat mirror. The previous owner did the windows, but didn't bother insulating the walls. The outside of the house is stucco which is not so much an insulator as it is a delay system. In winter it helps as the sun warms the stucco and it releases heat into the house to well after dark. But in the summer it is like being in a pizza oven. While I might not need to run the A/C until 3 or 4 pm, it has to run to midnight or 1 am.
On a good sunny winter day, the Enphase solar panels produce enough power to run the house from about 8:30 am to 3:30 pm. During that time, the extra solar is used to push about 10 KWHs into the 36 KWH battery. The DC panels also push another 5-6 KWHs to the battery. From 4 pm to 8 am the next day, the house uses about 13-16 KWHs or an average of just 800 to 1,000 watts to run the loads in the evening, through the night, and in the morning to sunrise. The battery cycles about 16 KWHs, about 45% of it's capacity.
On a bad winter day, I might only get 5 to 7 KWHs total from both PV systems. In that case, I may end up having to pull 10 KWHs from the grid. As I said, my house is pretty efficient, and the location sure helps. Adding up all of my panels is only 6,800 watts of panels.
The summer here can be a bit of a problem. Sure, the solar panels make a lot more power. But they get so hot, the power drops off a bit, and the Enphase iQ7 microinverters also get hot enough that they even have to reduce output a little. I have whole weeks where the temp stays over 100F (38C) with the peaks going over 120F (49C) on many days. Even setting the A/C as high as 80 degrees, my solar panels might not keep up. Right now I have a conventional Carrier central A/C system with an 18 SEER cooling rating. It pulls 14 amps at 240 volts (3,360 VA about 3,000 watts), plus another 800 watts to run the furnace blower. The Enphase system clips at 3,850 watts. Before I added the DC panels, I fell short by over 6 KWHs every day in the summer. The stucco walls work against me in summer. The house stays fairly cool until the high ToU rate kicks in. So I would be topping up the battery to make sure it could run the A/C from 4 pm to 9 pm as the heat was still coming in the walls. 5 hours of run time at 4,000 watts is 20 KWHs just to run the A/C. The only saving grace is Daylight Savings Time. The long days and the hour shift means that the solar panels were still making enough power to run the house and keep charging the battery out to 6:30 pm. So I was still cycling less than 60% of the battery capacity. In late August though, I had to use some grid power to keep up. The days start getting shorter while it is still crazy hot out.
With the rates as they are now, I am okay with what I have, but if (when) I get a plug in car, I will be way under powered. I think I could add another 1,600 watts of panels, but they will have shade in the early morning. I'll probably lose a full sun hour compared to my current panels. But that would still mean about another 8 KWHs a day in summer. But then I also need more battery to store it.