We did a battery backup system! I think we’ll do panels next. Did you buy enough panel generation to replace it as you use it?

We bought the ecoflow batteries; we haven’t shopped around for panels yet. I was hoping their panels were competitively priced so we could kind of just plug 'n play.

We live in the US (Maryland). We’re kind of rural, but not really that far out. A lot of folks in rural areas of the US have gasoline generators; this is just an alternative to that. The trees around here take out the power lines somewhat frequently and well… the state of the country makes us anxious. Around the time we bought the system, some right wing groups were floating ideas about shooting up electrical substations.

Anyway, if we were making the transition just for economics, we would also have gone in the reverse order. But we have two small kids, so we were worried about preparedness.

Ehh, disagree. We have a battery backup system (they charge from the electric lines) for our house because we have a well instead of sewer lines, so when the power goes out we don’t have water. Our next big purchase will be panels to charge the batteries as further backup.