Obviously slightly off-topic, but thought I'd share anyways.
There was a house recently built in my area that is 2 minutes from downtown, but was an undeveloped lot. PG&E was going to charge him $50,000 to get power to his place. He purchased a solar setup with 16 panels, inverter, battery, and generator for $20,000. It's a small house and he has a propane tank for cooking, hot water, and secondary heat, wood burning stove for primary heat. He also installed the solar himself which helped keep the cost down. He's got enough juice to top off his battery within one hour of sun hitting the panels and he can run power tools all day long as long as the sun is shining. Battery has never gone below 60% overnight, even in the winter. Off grid, pretty cool setup.