Interesting statistics, I have come acrossed many generation articles proffering solar PV and or wind generation and how much the technology has increased (YoY). Most of this is at the Utility scale. Not a lot of statistics of individual residential and small business installations and the overall effect this has when a system is using solar PV + ESS to extend the solar PV generated day into the evening hours on average and how this has an overall effect on the grid and grid loading. No real data collected to predict the overall efficiency of a residential or small business system compared to large utility scale solar PV or wind farms feeding the intrisic inefficient grid. Entities like the EIA like to set out data for energy use in (Quads) of BTUs per year, for the most part utility scale with all of the intrinsic inefficiencies. It seems over the last few years the EIA is using (billions) of kWh, even this does not address the efficiency of distributed solar PV and smart ESS where the energy is stored and used from the solar PV where it is generated. IF one can get enough solar PV and energy storage, the residential sector could become the “base” of the energy pyramid for grid services instead of the upside down business model of the typical electric utility with their centralized generation plants with dispatch over transmission corridors and split into distribution feeders, what one could view as an “inverted pyramid” which some would call a spinning top.