"A lot depends on how reliable the grid is in your area." Homeowner seeks advice on investing in home backup technology: '[Should I] wait until prices come down?' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Discover small solar home battery options, including flooded lead-acid, deep-discharge, and lithium-iron phosphate batteries. Welcome to our series answering reader questions and concerns about how to ...

Not only do battery backups keep the power on when the grid goes down, but they can also reduce monthly utility costs.

Australia is bracing for more power outages as rare Tropical Cyclone Alfred brings destructive winds and flooding to its east coast. Around 4,000 homes in New South Wales have already lost power due ...

Whether it’s to keep the lights on after a natural disaster or just to avoid peak energy rates, more people than ever are adding battery energy storage to their home solar systems. With some 45% of ...

Recently, Anker SOLIX ranked among the top three solar battery brands on SolarQuotes’ Top Solar Battery Brands list, which is based on reviews from Australians who have installed and lived with these ...

The Anker Solix E10 competes with the Powerwall and other home battery backups. It offers three ways to keep your home powered during an outage. You can buy it now. Ajay has worked in tech journalism ...

In the April 4, 2024, issue of EDN, the design of a solar mains hybrid lamp (HL) was featured. The lamp receives power from both a solar panel and a mains power supply to turn on an array of LED lamps ...

FREMONT, Calif., Oct. 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Enphase Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENPH), a global energy technology company and the world's leading supplier of microinverter-based solar and battery ...

Solar panels can only generate electricity; they can’t store it, so you must pair them with a stand-alone battery bank or a power station. For home emergency power (for a few hours of power), we ...

Learn how Vehicle‑to‑Home V2H charging and V2H bidirectional charging let drivers use an EV as home UPS for reliable EV battery home backup in 2026.