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Yup you have to contribute you sheep! All jokes aside yes if you have utilities present you must use them. Which is annoying as the minimum charges and customer charges are typically about 1/2-3/4 of the bill.
For a new build the goal would be to buy outside of a platted subdivision and then do the correct amount of insulation so very little solar is required. Instead of doing something dumb like R-13 walls and R-60 attic, it would be much better to do R-36 walls and R-36 ceiling etc...
When you go super insulated and pay attention to air sealing you start to need such a little heater you can go passivhaus like and use a 1200w wall heater to heat your whole house! Which is seriously impressive as that won't even bring my garage up more than 10F over ambient. (noninsulated. 22x20x12)
Then you really could do 120v appliances only and simplify it all so much.
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