Frugal and Energy Efficient Living

Unless the solar farm was going to run power lines directly to your home, your electricity would still have been provided by the local power company.

Did some google searching and found this article:

"Porter notes with sarcasm the difficulty from a financial standpoint: "Oh, it's a great investment! It's only $6,000 to buy it, and we're getting ten to twelve dollars a month back. That means I won't live long enough to recover it. But we're doing it to support the city.""

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865560551/If-you-build-it-will-they-come--Solar-farm-fails-to-attract-buyers-in-St-George.html?pg=all

Wind turbines are getting smaller:

http://www.gizmag.com/the-archimedes-liam-f1-urban-wind-turbine/32263/