Wow! Must be a good size installation. That works out to about 27Kwh per day. Which seems like an awful lot of energy usage. New Mexico averages 5 to 5 and a half hours of solar insolation per day. So maybe 5 KW worth of panels.
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Something my generation would not even conceived of when we were young.
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Actually, this is what originally interested me in PV and electric vehicles back when I was still in high school and we had the first "oil shortage". The problem with this scenario back then were that PV costs were IIRC around $10 per watt. And I don''t think that was installed. Additionally, electric vehicles were just experiencing their rebirth. As always, batteries were the weak link. Controllers were less efficient and cars were in general heavier even though they weren't required to have all the safety equipment they do now. I just remember thinking how cool it would be to have a car that didn't need gasoline and having a home that could generate its own power so that no one else could determine my cost of fuel or power.
Anyway,"more power" ha,ha to your friend.
JJ