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Have you also considered putting the solar panels straight up? This when using bifacial solar panels. Might help with getting the snow off. People started using them as fences, though you need the space/land for that.

Also, the various times I noticed talk about solar panels in the US it seems it is way overpriced, coupled with more expensive options being chosen. E.g. loads of micro inverters where a string inverter would make way more sense (economical).

Not affiliated, but e.g. https://www.solar-bouwmarkt.nl/ (use Google Translate), how do those prices compare to what you're seeing locally for panels and string inverters?