Owning your own home

The other options are:

1. Dig a hole in the flowerbed by the wall, intercept the armoured cable, run a cable down the wall from my flat to meet it, profit
   
2. Stick a couple of solar panels on the roof of the garage and run an inverter/couple of lorry batteries in the garage
   
   

I admit I'm leaning toward 2 currently, but thought I'd try to get mains power first.