You’re way ahead on the curve on energy self-reliance. And you’ve shown that your moves have been prudent.
Next week we’re moving into a modern apartment in the my city of Japan. We live in a 20 year old building now — earthquake proof, but a little too cramped.
The new place has some interesting electric changes which I hope to share once I get all the facts straight.
I’d love to hear about the electric changes. Of course, that’ll be for an apartment. Much of that might not be compatible to owning a house, which is often a requirement for having solar (I guess it’s possible to install solar if you own a condo, but not very efficiently IMHO.) But the other things for energy efficiency in a living space might be transferrable to a house.