What power ratings are solar PV panels available nowadays? Back when I was researching this a few years ago, the high end ones were about 300W per panel, but the efficiency was ridiculously low, less than 30% iirc, cost ran about $5/watt

 

A house like mines averages to about a little over 1000kWh/year, and I needed a 10kW system, so very costly

 

Check this site out, to estimate how much a certain size (kW) solar PV system is predicted to generate in your area on a monthly basis

 

http://pvwatts.nrel.gov/index.php

 

I think I'll just do it slowly, and concentrate on lowering my consumption piece by piece, and once I get it to around 800 kWh/month, then I'll consider looking into generation. 

 

Cheapest way to start is to change out your lights to LEDs

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