With the solar you have to take into account that you will have to get new batteries every 10 years or so all at the same time, so we were told. And they are not cheap. We will still get solar but not anything like if we had solar as our main system.
I would rather not give any power company a cent, but to have the power on is good. But we need to offset that with using solar to power us as much as we can.
Cheers Lorri