Somehow, places like Death Valley CA would seem to be ideal places as well as much of inland southern CA as you drive through one or two towns in 100 miles of nothing getting out of the state.
Rookie mistake.
Death Valley is not really a good location. Solar output drops as temps climb above 80F or 90F. Death Valley is routinely 110F and even 120F in the summer. Ideal is cool-ish and sunny, not hot and sunny. Better is the high desert, more like the nearby Mojave (2000 - 4000 ft)…still hot but not as much as Death Valley which is at (and below) sea level.
Mike