Having a battery backup feels like you’re prepared for anything—until the lights go out and you realize it’s not actually ...

Expensive upfront costs Fundamentally alters your home. There are a lot of different reasons why you might want a whole-home backup battery. Perhaps you lose power frequently. You might be expecting ...

Introduction: When sudden outages hit because of wild weather, an old power grid, or soaring electricity use, most homeowners feel ...

Home battery backup systems can be a huge help when the power goes out. But they're expensive. Like $10,000 or more. I checked out a system at CES 2024 that, if not quite cheap, is at least a little ...

We’ve all been there before. The power surges or cuts, even if for a second, and everything shuts off. The problem is you were in the middle of a big project and you have no idea when your work was ...

With the right hardware properly installed, some electric vehicles with bidirectional charging can power your home during a ...

Depending on where you live in the US, electrical outages can be anything from a rare occurrence to near certainty. While some only last a few minutes or hours, longer ones can end up spoiling ...

New Orleans-based Solar Alternatives has been installing rooftop solar panels along the Gulf Coast for 17 years. For most of that time, only about a quarter of the company's customers chose to bolster ...

For Southern Californians whose homes survived despite being near January’s wildfires, returning home has often been a struggle. Some properties required extensive smoke remediation, along with ash ...