Power ?

We we get sorted and move over for good the big issue will be power.I work on-line now and need to have about 5 hours of power everyday for the laptop in order to continue to work this way.At the moment and for the foreseeable future we will not be able to invest in a full solar system and so have more or less concluded that we will be trying to manage with a few panels and a 12v set up plus a generator for heavy power jobs.But we have no experience of this and have 2 children who like their gadgets and who are also not too impressed with the idea of living in Portugal.At their age (almost teens )friends are more important than family from their perspective.So these are a couple of our immediate challenges.We will be home schooling and we want the children to be involved in our renovation work and planting work.We have a whole hillside which needs replanting with native trees .....a lot of work.