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Frugal and Energy Efficient Living

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5. Definitely some merit to this for purely backup purposes, however...

Reply to Timewas (Reply #3)

Sat Nov 21, 2020, 12:02 PM

Nov 2020

There are some potentially considerable advantages to having a battery system, especially if your utility charges different rates during peak and off-peak hours. You can run your home from battery during peak hours, and recharge during off-peak hours. Further, if your battery system provides more capacity than you use, and your utility offers net-metering, you can actually feed power back onto the grid, and be paid for it.