[solardev]

What is she using so much power for? If she ranching or doing some sort of energy intensive processing? Heating other buildings?

Does your jurisdiction have time of use billing? What are your local laws about solar buy back?

With that much acreage and usage, a solar setup might pay itself back pretty quickly. You can consider either just doing a standard grid tie setup where you sell power back to the grid, or use batteries to timeshift your generation and usage curves, or maybe even put parts of the operation off-grid altogether (with battery and generator backup). If she has a river or stream nearby, microhydro might be a possibility too.

You can get a processional energy audit done, or if you're the DIY type, sometimes you can loan the tools (solar measurement tools, thermal cameras, energy meters, etc.) from your utility or some local energy nonprofit and learn to use them from YouTube.

If you can describe her situation in more detail, I'd be happy to discuss some options. Not an expert, but went to school for this stuff and worked in renewables for a while.

[RollAHardSix]

Thanks. We're going to do an energy audit, at-least cutting off breakers and observing the meter to start with.

Her bill listed 222.84 in generation services. 188.86 in fuel factor at 0.0413900 per kWh. 176.04 transmission services 101.02 distribution services

She does have a barn w a light for her horse but thats listed seperately for her bill. Her kWH usage is 4562 per month & I'm really not sure how she gets to that, she literally drives between 1 & 2 hours to work and back every day depending on location so she's only home in the evenings.

[solardev]

> Her kWH usage is 4562 per month

This is the part that seems quite high to me. All the other numbers scale off that, and in some jurisdictions, the high usage could put her in a higher pricing tier than a normal residence. An average house might use 1000 to 2000 kWh a month, for example. Of course her property is much bigger, but it would still be good to figure out what exactly is using the power.

Knowing what's using that much could help you better evaluate solutions, mainly in knowing whether it's better to conserve or self-generate.

Just random examples: If she's using electric resistive heating, a heat pump could save some money. If she's got a lot of lighting going on (big barn with old lights?), LEDs could help. Are there pumps running all the time? EV charging? Is someone crypto mining in a secret shed? Is there a miswired electric fence? Things like that...