As one who has spent a lifetime in the radio/electronic industry can someone explain to me how (according to the TV) all that is required to provide all your domestic power requirements is a few solar panels on the roof and any surplus can be sold back to the grid at an enhanced rate.
Who is trying to kid Who/

With a large enough investment. A number of utilities have programs that help subsidize installations of "co-producer" solar panel arrays. Your out of pocket will still run on the order of 30,000,00 dollars US, give or take a bit. You are still grid tied though, but at times when you are not using the power, or the excess power if you are charging batteries, you are producing energy for the power company.

One of the things that has been promoted in some magazines and in some online forums- and is illegal in the manner most do it, has been for people to go out and buy a panel, a charge controller and an inverter and just plug that into their wall outlet- a very unsafe practice, but people do it.

The power company, when they install a system that complies with their standards, you are not getting paid an enhanced rate, you are still selling the power back to them at a lower rate than what they would charge you to use that same amount of energy.

What is usually most cost effective for people is to simply cut their usage. You can do that by looking at the "half program" on the site http://www.builditsolar.com

What would these solar panels power? For instance, my energy bill shows 2035kWh for last month. How much would this remove from that if it outputted full power? Thanks!

http://www.solarhome.org/sunwizeoem60wattsolarkit.aspx

For better prices for US and Canada for something comparable, try here: http://www.northerntool.com and just look through their alternative enrgy offerings.

The point with the 60 watt kits, is they are a starting point. You can add more photovoltaic kits in parallel to increase what power you can collect. If you are really wanting to go over to alternative energy to simply be off grid, prepare to spend some money. The benefits will outweigh the difficulties in the long run. One big factor in sizing a system is when is most of your load occuring? If daytime, panels are only a partial solution. You really need to consider adding a wind system if you can in your area. If you are only able to work with solar, look at getting the larger panels, or if you happen to be looking at reroofing soon, then you will want to look at the offerings of Powerfilm. http://www,powerfilmsolar.com

As for that kit you are looking at, that is more suitable for mounting on a travel trailer somewhere where you are camping to recharge the deep cycle battery for the low voltage appliances you are using.

Right now is probably a good time to start looking at ways of either running on low voltage, say for general lighting in a basement, or shed, and putting up some means of maintaining those batteries with solar and or wind. If you start small, you can add on at any time. Adapting or adopting to using LED lighting is much easier when you are using a low voltage system because they are inherently a low voltage device, so there is no need to step voltages up and then down again to operate them.

However, just by becoming aware of where your power consumption is can help you better utilize it. It also gets you thinking differently at how you use energy. Take a look at http://www.builditsolar for other ideas. If you are not handy yourself, alternative energy systems are going to be more expensive for you because you will have to hire people to do the work. And while there are some reasonable books out there on certain aspects, there is no one good book for someone who either does not already have an interest or some other background in some aspect of the broad sweep of alternative energy. There are also a lot of bad ideas being promoted too, often the result of poor judgement or not enough background.

At 2.3 Kw usage, you might really want to consider investing in a "Kill a Watt" meter (also available from Northern Tool) to track down where the usage is coming from to see if you can trim some usage to save yourself some money. In some areas the power companies try to kick you into a commercial catagory to charge you even more money once you exceed a certain threshold of consumption. Plus you face carbon taxation burdens as well. Due to the economies of scale, it really takes minimal energy to produce, and the cost of energy to produce those items is factored into the price, that is what some accountants get hired to do. A company that does not cover it’s operating expenses with profits goes out of business fast.

Something a lot of people fail to do is look at how long it takes for the item to pay for itself by reduced energy costs.

my power bill is bout $500 a month
i was looking at this ad in the paper and these solar panels was 190W each, i forgot the price but just wondering how many 190W panels would i need

Rough figure;
Estimate Your energy use: $500 2 25Cents/KWH = 2000 KWH/Mo.

Estimate panels requ’d @ 150W/Pnl. & 20 ‘Good sun’ days/Mo., and 6 good sun Hr.s/day
you’d about 120 panels, and appropriate storage batteries & inverter.