It has NOTHING to do with economics or climate!
It is about independence!!!!
Roger that. Best of luck with it.
Same here. I strongly suggest you don't focus just on solar. There are many other energy improvements we did to our house that have brought a better return than our adding solar did. Things like more insulation and sealing cracks. We also replaced our A/C and natural gas furnace with a variable speed heat pump. And we replaced our natural gas water heater with a hybrid water heater.
I also strongly suggest you don't put power onto the grid. I have inverters that let me choose to put no power onto the grid. If you put power onto the grid you automatically put yourself under some new regulations, perhaps a lot of regulations depending on the state you live in.
As long as you understand it will require maintenance just like anything else.
The tree hugger across the street refuses to spend $7k for repairs on his ....and now it is totally inoperable.
I guess he thought it would be a one time expenditure and the system would last forever.......typical lib. SMH