How is Solar Energy incorporated into homes?

Solar energy in homes is the most popular among all of the many uses in solar technology, due to the many advantages of it. From 2000 to 2013, solar panel capacity increased to supply power to just about two million homes (Rogers, 2015, para.5)
http://www.cfr.org/united- states/solar-power-comes-age/p36164

Solar energy can be used to power homes all over the planet. It could be quite beneficial to rural parts of the world where people need electricity and power to help sustain human life. The basics of solar energy incorporated into homes is pretty obvious; there are solar panels put on a roof of a house and those panels collect sunlight. Truth is, there is more to it than that. The solar panels on the roof have cells that collect the sunlight, and turn the sunlight into direct current electricity. The electricity then gets sent to an inverter in the home, that turns the electricity into an alternating current. This is what the outlets and appliances in homes use. Most of the time batteries are attached to the inverter to store any unused or excess electricity. The great thing about having solar panels for your home, is that you can sell any stored electricity back to the grid. This is how the solar panels pay themselves off in the long run.
Below I have a brief video that gives a basic on how solar panels work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4CTceusK9I