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How's sunshine where you are? Does your electric company offer to buy what you can feed into the grid when you produce more than you use?
When I last checked, unless you have very favorable conditions it took a very long time to break even (I think it was 25 years), let alone beat the opportunity costs, but here electricity costs are low, sunshine is not overly abundant and long winters with significant snowfall are a concern. If I were to do it, I'd do it in a limited capacity for redundancy in case of outage, to keep the lights, refrigeration and secondary heating going. But a generator and batteries are likely a more financially reasonable way of achieving this, if perhaps not quite as appealing to my preference for self-reliance.
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