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This has been the push I've needed to pull the trigger on installing solar. My electric rates have gone from $0.09/KWh to $0.23/KWh in the last 5 years. Just got my bill after reducing as much as I could (my house is all electric sans the furnace). "Surely it'll be under $100 this month," I thought. Nope.
I've got 800W of PV currently in an ad-hoc setup* but I'm putting together the plan for a 3.2 KW system that can auto switch between battery, PV, and grid without backfeeding. Minus the batteries, the whole setup is going to cost me about $7,000. (Batteries aren't required and will be added later)
Grid-tie is technically legal in my area, but the hoops you have to jump through are insane and there's a high likelihood of being denied by the power company over the most bullshit of minutiae (seriously, they treat someone possibly feeding back 400 watts the same as if you were a MW-scale solar farm).
*The ad-hoc setup is just 4x200W panels in a 2S2P config. I charge an Anker PowerStation from that and use it to power random stuff. It's currently powering my server stack while charging from the panels. :)
I really need to get on this. Even just a few panels on the garage to run my NAS and PC off of it nothing else.
Yeah, that's a good place to start. Seeing that it costs almost $50/mo just to run my server/network gear was really eye opening. The stack averages about 290 watts (thank the gods I downsized when I did!) which comes out to:
(290/1000) * 24 * 30 * 0.23 = $48.02/moStill cheaper than cloud subscriptions, though.
I'm thankfully only looking at half that with the upgrade I need to do. My family has realized I'm able and willing to backup all family photos, even scan the physical ones, so my 7 TB is going fast.
I don't want to think about what my desktop I'm on all day burns. I do graphically intense stuff so gpu running full blast.
And you have full governance of your data.