Wherever you are, you might want to mimic the way the Amish generate their own electricity - generally a combination of roof mounted solar panels and one or two residential sized wind turbines, all charging one or more banks of storage batteries. They tend not to draw a lot of electricity in the house, but they have barns, milking parlors and shops with demands that are comparable to the English.
Yep you guessed right. That’s sort of what we are trying to figure out. We have a windmill. I’m of the mind of trying to build one, this windmill we bought and had set up. I want one for our well pump. Not sure how it’d work so I’m looking into that too. I’m not so sure about solar. But, we’ve been thinking of at least making one panel ourselves. The cost is pretty small if you build yourself. As for the battery back up. We are looking into that to but, it costs a fortune. We have a source of good used batteries that would work and we can get them cheap just not sure how long they would last.