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The ‘Guerrilla Solar’ Era Has Arrived, and Here’s What to Know (insideclimatenews.org)

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

I've got one of those big Anker Solix power stations. I have two ideas for it:

My wood shop is powered by one 20A breaker from my house. Running lights, dust collection and power tools is a lot to ask of a single 20A circuit, so the power station is basically another one.
As an emergency power source for my refrigerator. In the not infrequent event of a power failure, I have some power that isn't a gasoline powered generator.

Turns out, it's got a TOU mode. So if you're on one of those time-of-use plans with your power company, you can set this thing to store power from when it's cheap, pass through when it's average, and provide power from battery when it's expensive. My refrigerator, apparently, draws a near constant 165 watts. So I might look into that here.