[LikeBeans]

We get 2-3 power outages every year where I live. Mainly due to trees with ice/snow/wind. My solution was to buy three power banks. A 500Wh, and a couple of 300Wh. I have a pluggable camp fridge too and a gas fireplace. So one battery powers the fan in the fireplace, another for the cooler to keep the food from spoiling. And the third one for a couple of the lights (with LED bulbs). Works great and we can handle an outage that lasts about 4-5 days. Also we got 4 of these rechargeable lanterns for lights around the house. I just keep the batteries and lanterns charged. Really easy and my investment is about $1000.

[bkettle]

Do you mean 500Wh rather than 500kWh? 500 kWh would be around 10 EVs worth, and looks like it costs around 700k [0], but 500Wh seems to be a common size for portable power stations [1]

[0] https://www.backupbatterypower.com/products/516-kwh-industri...

[1] https://www.ankersolix.com/products/535?variant=497024349310...

[layla5alive]

I think you're off by a couple of orders of magnitude... 500Wh and 300Wh maybe? Or 5kWh and 3kWh if you got a very great deal? Your investment would be orders of magnitude more than $1000 for around a total of 1MWh!

[LikeBeans]

Thanks for pointing that out. Yeah I meant Wh not kWh. Oops. I fixed my post.