Originally Posted by After Shock Media

In all honesty it is not that hard to do and there are plenty of rebates and tax incentives offered to make it cheap.

Typically the average house uses about 50kwh or so (at least in my area) in a month. One just typically needs to produce more than that to sell it back to the power companies.
Yet it is best to go with both solar as well as wind. Since ussually when the sun is not out there is wind blowing, plus wind is producing at night as well. Not to mention the newer generation of solar cells that are coming out are near paper thin and even more effecient.

There is a guy not to far from us who is self sufficent power wise. Then to make it even better, he earns roughly 175,000.00 a year selling back electricty. He litterally can retire and use his property and house to not only maintain him yet provide him with a nice income. Though he recently upgraded a bunch of stuff so he is back down 500,000 in upgrades (before rebates and tax breaks), yet he said he is seeing a 40 percent increase energy production.