I'm working on it and have been making improvements to our property to one day do it. Let me ask how deep have you researched it? Unless your electric bill is under 1000 kWh per month for get it. That's the biggest trick is getting the kWh usage down to where it can be reasonably done.


When I bought my home it was consuming about 2400 kWh per month. Since then we replace the hot water heater, the AC unit, the appliances, and insulated under the home I'm down to about 1300 kWh per month. Next year we are having new double pane windows done and then I'll install the first part of the solar system a solar hot water heater to see how low we can get.


If you can get down to 1000 kWh or less you can have a system that is grid tied in for around $30,000 but a grid tied system doesn't do anything if the power lines go down. So you can then do a battery backup or off grid system but it'll be another 10-15k for that. What we plan on doing is a grid tie in with a whole home natural gas generator as a backup and dual charging solar backup, I'm still pricing them but it'll be another 8-13k to get the generator installed and tied into the solar system.


I believe JEA does buy back energy on a grid tie in system. There's a site I can find the link when I get home that has tons of information about the different systems and how many panels you'll need.

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