You can also adjust the settings to lower brightness or reduce the duration the lights stay on, which conserves the battery’s charge. This way, even if the solar panels are in the shade ...

Very rarely will you have shade covering the entire roof," JD Dillon, chief marketing officer at Tigo Energy, a manufacturer of optimizers, inverters, and other solar equipment, told CNET.

Other products include backup battery storage systems, inverters ... ground and carport/shade structures. Green Home Systems offers solar panels from brands including Panasonic, QCells, Longi ...