Great - if you’re in New Mexico or someplace else with 300+ days of sunshine per year.
The people you need to talk to are the Earthship home designers. http://earthship.com/
They specialize is building “off the grid” homes. You should have a look their site and see if they have any info on building self-sufficient homes in your environment.
Thanks for the info but, we already have a home here. We are just trying to be as self sufficient as possible. We have thick insulation in the house and the best windows for this area. Two wood stoves but, it’d be nice to have some electricity so if the power goes out for whatever reason we have a least enough electricity for some basics, fridge, freezer, a couple of lights.