20 July

A home battery doesn’t just save money. It’s insurance against disasters (and with climate change there are a lot more of those). The whole street will likely have no power today while this is fixed on the neighbour’s nature strip. It’s yanked the mains out of both sides of the street. Our battery creates a micro-grid for us, so we’ll have power as normal. The solar will power both us and the battery. If you have solar panels without a battery, you don’t form a micro-grid and you’re without power like everybody else.