I have solar. My rate for electric is locked in at what the current rate was and will never go above that. My current electric bill is typically under $10 a month - hell, it’s usually under $5. Add that to my payments for the loan to pay for the panels and I am still well under what my power bill was alone before the panels. I also get a nice chunk of $$ for selling my SRECs.
When the panels are paid off in another 4ish years, I will be saving a significant amount of money monthly.
I didn’t get solar to be “off-grid” or to have power during outages. It was to save money on our monthly electric bill.