My solution to this is that I'm adding solar to my camping trailer and running an extension cord to my house to run some stuff. If I make full use of the power I can shave $30/month off my power bill forever. Plus I'll have power out in the wild and at home when, not if, the power goes out. But I'm only installing 1.25kW of solar capacity which isn't enough to run any but the smallest appliances, it's barely enough to run a standard coffee maker (I know it doesn't really work that way but for sale the laymen who don't understand about battery banks and inverters just go with it...). It is, interestingly, more than enough to run a small window AC (~500W) so I know that in the dead of summer I can at least keep a small space comfortably cool.

Panel costs are going WAY down, it's the installation that's expensive because it's dangerous work. So if you take the time to understand what you're doing and take the appropriate safety precautions, setting up your own solar micro-grid can be pretty cheap. The panels, cabling, mounting hardware, and fuses were about $600 because I bought panels with cosmetic defects that are only rated for off-grid use.

Microgrids are where it's at imo.