Hello Iris Its sounds to me likeyou area NIMBY, Not in my back yard!! we all want electricity and are quite happy to accept the supply as long as we don't have a nuclear or gas powered station in our area, and now we are getting even pickeir about it, we now don't want to see a Wind generator or a solar farm or dam a river for hydro electric, Well Bollxxcks if you want electric it has to be generated and if you want to live without electric then that fine but accept the fact if you want electric then take the consequenses don't start bleeting about windmills gas power stations nuclear hydro just beggar off and live in hippy land and light your life with candles.

If you really are what you profess to be then I admire your frugality but don't think for one minute that generating your own electricity is eco!!  batteries pollute the environment at both ends production and recycling, the efficiency of a small wind turbine is pathetic and the noise from one is also a pollutant solar panels use silicon and arsenides which also pollute the environment, so you can't win accept  the enevitable and rely on major power suppliers to provide electric anything else is futile and more polluting
G.O.M.