These panels easily could have been installed with a switch to take them off the grid in a power outage. That would have made sense. Then the homeowner could have power. But the setup today is little more than collector-sites which are owned by the government - they are using your roof - and that are controlled by the power company.
Beware offers of "free" solar panels and "free" installation and "tax credits"! This is your tip-off that your home will be controlled by the power company and owned the government.

In recent years, as the technology becomes cheaper and more prevalent, an increasing number of people are installing solar panels on their homes in an effort to produce their own renewable energy at a fraction of the cost from their local energy provider.
Unfortunately for Florida residents, especially those who found themselves without power following Hurricane Irma, a law brought about by power company lobbying and big government control freaks prohibits Floridians equipped with solar panels from using them independently of their local energy provider, according to a scathing report by the Miami New Times
The Miami New Times noted that Floridians are required by law to connect their solar panel-powered homes to the standard electrical grid, and pointed to a section of FPL’s guidelines on “clean energy” that mandate solar power systems be powered down along with the rest of the grid during an outage
Incredibly, even as solar customers are required to install a special disconnect switch that removes their panels from the grid while keeping the rest of the home attached, they are prohibited from independently flipping that switch to power their homes while the grid is down.
However, FPL reserves the right to come and disconnect those panels at anytime they see fit, even placing a padlock on it if necessary, without any warning ahead of time to customers.
That, along with several other hoops prospective solar panel owners must jump through, creates an incredible disincentive to consumers and essentially prohibits them from being self-reliant in terms of energy, which is kind of the main idea behind installing solar panels on a home in the first place.
Furthermore, FPL is thought to be heading up lobbying efforts to do away with the “net-metering” provision that allows solar customers to “sell” excess energy their panels have produced back to the power company, which would remove the sole remaining incentive for Floridians to undertake the expense of installing solar panels.
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