[Gathering6678]

We live in a big city now (though not exactly close to hospital or government), but my wife's hometown is a smallish rural town, and power outage is also extremely rare (less than once per year?) in the past decade or so. If you need e.g. oxygen ventilation at home, probably safer to have a backup generator or UPS, but I don't think anyone I know would need one at home.

I don't know about "remote rural". But in those places, I don't think anyone could afford an energy storage system even if needed......

[defrost]

UPS is as much about smoothing through "glitches" (lights flickering isn't a power outage but it will shutdown a desktop computer / NAS) as it is about power for a 20 minute outage.

Which prompts a question- do you run a server / destop / NAS type system, or are you one of the many phone / tablet / other device users that are already somewhat independant of the power grid being fully on 24/7?

Asking about "remote rural" wasn't about whether people there could afford off grid power of their own, rather it was about the grid quality and delivery for people that live there and rely on it.

Where I am we get relatively few "outages" (minutes without power) but glitches and 20 second outages are common enough in lightning season ( we get a lot of ground strikes compared to other ares of the world ) and the power lines and transformers are surge protected which is seen as glitching on the long arms of the delivery network.

[Gathering6678]

That makes sense. I am running a desktop PC as server, and a NAS for backup. Only the PC is protected by a UPS, and the NAS is directly connected to the socket. I can't recall experiencing any glitches actually...it was a bit more common ~20 years ago. Most of the outages were things like maintenance, or some guy at a construction site did something stupid.

As for the remote rural argument, I totally agree with you: it's just that I don't know about those places. What I said about affordability was regarding the article: I don't think Anker would be able to sell those in China, since those who might want one probably couldn't afford it.