On a small personal scale it does work if you are willing to make some lifestyle changes and add some labor to your routine and learn to do without central heating and cooling. But the utility companies and government regulations will never give up that “control” over folks and let them be truly independent. Most states won’t even let you add battery storage to a solar system for BS environmental reasons, it is self defeating. And without storage it is completely useless.
“ Most states won’t even let you add battery storage to a solar system for BS environmental reasons, it is self defeating. And without storage it is completely useless.”
Yet, the government is preparing to force us into EVs that have huge batteries, and they not once mention or seem to care about the environmental issues of those mobile batteries.