Solar panels can only generate electricity; they can’t store it, so you must pair them with a stand-alone battery bank or a power station. For home emergency power (for a few hours of power), we ...

A portable power station can keep the lights on in your RV when camping off the grid or serve as a viable backup for home power during an outage. However, portable power stations typically only last ...

Many people have come to the conclusion that a portable battery power station is a smart investment these days for home emergency backup in the event of a blackout. This is a scenario that seems to be ...

Hands-on: Ugreen's $1,299 setup takes a few hours to turn sunlight into enough charge to run my refrigerator for hours. When high winds took down power lines and left my family in the dark last March- ...

Before purchasing a solar generator for home backup, it’s important to first assess if you want a full solar generator setup (power station + solar panels), or if it would be more cost effective to ...

Portable solar panels neatly ride the line between fallback options during a power outage and convenient sources of electricity on the go. Solar power is the fastest growing source of electricity in ...

When my wife and I decided to expand our horizons beyond campgrounds with full electrical hook-ups to experience dry camping, we didn’t want to go entirely without certain creature comforts, like ...

I'm in Tampa on my 5th day without power. I have a rechargeable battery and solar panels that meets my family's basic needs. I want to expand our offline power to increase our comfort the next time a ...

From rolling blackouts in California to windstorms toppling forests (and power lines) in Washington State; hurricanes devastating communities along the eastern seaboard to electrical grid failures in ...