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For real, I have wood stoves (and propane heaters a supplemental) for winter heat so luckily a little less load on my system! This past winter was so cold here I had to get a subzero sleeping bag and put a living heater (my dog) inside of it because even the wood stoves couldn't keep up
I have mini splits but because of the sun situation I couldn't run them on heat without burning through my power/spending hundreds of dollars on gas for the generator!
I have woodstoves as well, but I'll run the furnace fan to distribute the heat, so there's a bit of use, and it'll kick propane in if the fire burns down, or the heat pump if it's above -15 outside and I have capacity. I tend to be around 10KW of usage but 23KW of panels struggles some days. After about 5 days of poor sun I'll be out of reserve, and I fire up the genny for 5 hours to top them back up.
I've considered building a woodgas source for the genny, that would take me pretty much completely off the teat. I'd love to get a groundsource heat pump but those are mucho dinero.
I've also considered melting urea for a cooling source, since we farm and need N for the sprayer. It's amazing how much heat the endothermic reaction takes, and using a sprayer for topdressing is much more precise than spreading dry fert.