Today I rolled over 1 megawatt hours of solar power generation with my small setup (~1000w) on my 5th Wheel. Thats over a 15 month period.
The average American household comsumes about 10.7 Megawatts per year.
We certainly consumed more than 1 megawatt over the same period as we dont exclusively use solar for power generation. Sometimes we are at a park that has electrical hookups, sometimes we need to use our backup generator.
We full time exclusively and are becoming better at finding off grid locations for our large rig.
Why does this matter? It really only matters to me, but we certainly feel we have dramatically reduced our carbon footprint. Because we are living smaller, we're naturally using less, but being able to power our own home makes it even better.
In the scheme of things, 1 MW power generation is not that big of a deal, as some households consume that in 1 month. It also only equates to a monetary savings of about $120 (@$0.12/kw). We save much more just by choosing non-electric sites if offered (with good solar). Where we are now there is a $15/day difference between electric site and non-electric. In 9 days we save ~$126.
The image below is our power generation over the past 30 days. We are currently in Minnesota headed to Voyagers NP. 3 weeks ago we were on electrical connection, so you can see a huge difference in solar power generation.