Solar is way too expensive, and the cost to benefit/ payback analysis presents a dismal picture.
UPS consumes electricity?: I believed on this myth and wanted to get rid of UPS, until I got a digital multimeter and did all calculations. I used to think that UPS wastes around 50% electricity during charge/discharge cycles. But it came out to be only 10-15%.
Charging the batteries in lesser time: Well, there're some solutions for this, which I haven't implemented myself.