Since my electric bill averaged less than $100 per month, I automatically qualified to have SunWork.org put in a low cost solar system even though I'm a middle class home owner. I got a 10 panel 2.85 kW DC system for only $8,020 and after the tax credit it will cost just $5,600. Dividing the cost by the energy it provides, gives an average cost of just 6 cents per kWh instead of my PG&E retail rate of 18 cents per kWh. Yes! Solar for just 1/3 the cost of regular PG&E.
It makes more electricity than i needed, so I got rid of my Frack-Gas water heater and replaced it with an electric super efficient heat pump water heater that cost about $1200 before the incentives of $500 from PG&E and $300 Federal Tax Credit knocked that cost down to just $400. It runs on my excess solar electricity so now I also have 100% solar water heating without pipes on the roof! Yes we can build wealth by helping the environment.

Tom: nice. Thanks for sharing. A simple investment that will pay dividends for decades and decades (what is the mtbf on a panel? Inverters are every decade or two.)

Producing clean energy locally also reduces transmission loss (up to 20%, iirc.)

We need to produce energy at the local level. We also need to stop shipping oil and coal out of our country.

America First.

excuse the error - transmission losses are in the neighborhood of 7-10%. I thought I've read higher.

Great news!

My systems has one "micro inverter" for each panel and the micro inverter is warranted for 25 years.
I think Transmission losses for bringing in grid power are 5-7%.
Sometimes it's better to site Solar remotely. (Palo Alto data shows them paying about 5 times as much to site solar locally as to site it remotely in bulk.)
But for my personal use, I only have one roof and SunWork.org is very affordable, So I sited it here.
But the clear things we need to do locally are to:
0) Sign up for 100% carbon free energy when it becomes available from Peninsula Clean Energy this fall.
1) install energy efficiency to provide great services with less energy,
2) install load control to adjust load timing to match resource availability without sacrificing service,
3) install Energy Storage for both local resilience and grid support for renewables
4) install electrification of almost all fossil fuel loads. Heat pump water heater and an EV charger for most homes to start with.
So even if we let the renewable resources be sited where they save the most money (in low cost windy sunny areas), we still have a lot of good things to do locally to make it go as far as it can.

We went Solar, replaced every light bulb with LED, setup an automation system for most lights and all irrigation that we can remotely control and monitor. Replaced ICE with EV, escooter, bicycle or walk whenever we can.