Power outages can be really stressful and inconvenient, unless, of course, you happen to have solar power with a home battery backup system. One Redditor took to the "r/solar" subreddit to tell the tale of their first outage after installing the system.
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Titled "Our first 12 hr outage after solar install," the post read in part, "Yesterday evening we faced a small thunderstorm which caused power outage. Tesla batteries kicked in and kept things running. … Powerwall carried us through the night until power came back in the morning. It was a great feeling."
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The comment section was full of people who presumably have similar setups to the original poster.
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One person commented, "My wife asked if I'm now looking forward to power outages. Tbh, a bit." The OP replied with more details about the experience, posting, "I only knew of the outage by the Tesla app that notified of the grid outage followed by a text from the utility company. Otherwise things were running as is."
Another commenter posted, "Last time when the power went out for about 8 hours, it kept my fridge, my phone and laptop running just fine."
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