Outages are easier to live through when the decisions were made beforehand: what must stay on, how it gets power, and what is dangerous to improvise in the dark. These guides cover the situations people actually face, from daily scheduled load shedding to storm outages that last days, with printable checklists to work through before the power goes.
5 guides
A printable checklist of the specs and questions that matter before buying a home inverter, a battery or a power station, and the sales claims to ignore.
A printable checklist for power cuts of any length: what to prepare now, before a forecast outage, during it, and when the power comes back.
With cuts every day, the battery must refill between them. How to size for recharge time as well as backup, and why lithium often pays off.
A gas furnace still needs electricity. How much backup keeps it running, why electric heaters flatten batteries, and safe ways to stay warm in an outage.
Storm outages last days, not hours. What to power, how to size batteries or a generator, safe generator use, and what to do before, during and after.
