“Just go solar”
My daughter and fiancé bought a house in Concord, CA with solar on the flat roof. She is always bragging about her $12 electric bill and almost no gas usage (just a heat pump).
Huh. One of my neighbors, no doubt.
I have ~1700sq ft and my average electrical was $97 in 2022.
So, at $12/mo her rooftop solar farm is paying itself off at about $85 a month via the PG&E bill. What’s not being accounted for, here, is the portion of the monthly mortgage — principal and interest — that represents the installation cost of that solar energy system. That cost was integrated into the purchase price, so she’s ended up trading a larger monthly electric bill for a larger mortgage.
The money is still going bye-bye every 30 days.