..Last off topic post, before handing it back to Hypernova.

The one and only correct name for our country is the Netherlands. Holland is only a part of the Netherlands, again devided into North-Holland, and South-Holland. It's true that the Netherlands is often mistakenly called Holland by a lot of foreigners. Holland used to be a seperate country centuries ago, that's the root of the confusion I think.
Saying Holland when you mean the Netherlands is the same as saying England when you mean Great Brittain.
But we, the dutch, forgive you all for it.

Do you have to hook your panels up to the grid and buy the electric back form the grid?

The buyback scheme in fact is an indirect subventioning system where the governement puts money on the table so that the company would buyback your energy through a buyback longterm contract at a higher price than the standard grid price so that you can finance your installation over 10 or 20 years.

I know that it seems completely absurd, but in a very rich country like Switzerland, that is financially very solid (very little debt and a sound profit every year), and that boasts to be green, environmentally friendly etc. etc. there is nearly no money spent to promote and develop solar or wind energy. Even promotion of hydro energy through mini and micro hydro failed many years ago.
One of the problems is related to the fact that the energy sector is not a consolidated sector, it is completely exploded through a thousand companies, producers and distributors, that belong to a miriad of public and private entities. As a result we are very dependent on nuclear energy, and the hydro electrical energy does allow Switzerland to save the face in terms of renewable energy share, otherwise the Swiss governement is today the one that has the smallest budget of all in terms of renewables. The extremely powerful nuclear and hydro lobbies leave no chance to the federal governement to promote other energies.

To put it in short I am entitled to nothing at all. I have to pay the full price of the Solar kWhr. It is a personal effort that I do.

The only advantage I have is that I profit from the economies of scale in terms of costs. My 30 m2 are a small share of 20'000 m2 of the solar plant. So I have optimal costs in terms of investment, maintenance, operations, and guarantee of production. That is all.

Yes, undeniably so.
Do you expect the summer months to provide for a decent average price?
What we need is a way to store energy generated by
- sunlight
- wind
- waves

and arranging for at least one of the above to produce while the two others sleep

There are several ways to store the energy.

Some solar power plants use molten salt to store excess energy generated during the day and deploy it to the grid at night or on days when it is not sunny. Some of these solar power plants are able to provide power 24 hours a day.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/toddwoody/2011/11...olar-energy-storage-deal/

As for other power sources there is the flywheel energy storage plant such as the one built by Beacon Power that stores 20MW of power to pump into the grid as needed.