No cash back rebates or net metering?
I wasn't sure if you were addressing me. So In case you were, the answer is no...
...no solar no cash back rebates no net metering no smart meter.
Electricity is easy, all of our household lighting is LED, and all of the hot appliances (hot water heater, clothes dryer and cook stove) are propane which is dirt cheap compared to electricity. No AC, no heat pump, no mini splits. Free wood is the only house heat.
The ~real~ problem here is water. California is in a severe drought and water bills are sky high killers. Our neighbor's water bill runs over $800 per month in the Summer.
We have a small garden, 30 fruit and nut trees, and 15 grape vines which need irrigating...
...so I designed a waste water treatment plant which automatically composts all of the raw sewage from our house, reclaims every drop of water from it and pumps it into a storage tank from which we irrigate our trees and vines. It has saved us thousands of dollars on our water bill. I installed the system in April 2015 and have paid the minimum $40 per month ever since.
This is where all of the raw sewage from our house goes. It's aerated just like municipal sewage treatment plants do. The riser is left open with a safety grid over it because there's no smell.
This is where the water is settled and filtered so I turned it into a water garden. The hair like root systems of the Water Hyacinths extract nutrients from the water while clarifying it and the filter keeps any debris in the tank where it belongs.
If you look closely at the leaf just below the white filter cap you can see a Pacific Tree Frog on it. A few of them went down there from the batch of wogs that hatched in our pond. They live on the mosquitoes that fly in. This is the storage tank...
The stainless pump pressurizes the water so we can use a hose. I also installed a hand pump in the back yard.
I also designed a toilet sink where the water gets used three times.
Once to wash your hands, again to flush the toilet, and a third time to irrigate the trees and vines.
Greg