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Originally Posted by Sooner or later
Sounds reasonable. In Cali with threats of planned power outages and really high electricity costs I would put in solar with battery back up.
In Oklahoms it is a waste of money.
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It's a waste of money in California, and everywhere for that matter.
There are only two value streams for storage. Either rate arbitrage or back up. Rate arbitrage under current TOU rates would take about 100 years to pay back. I have PG&E and had three outages last year. I lost MAYBE $50 in food since I did not have a generator at the time. A $250 generator and that wont happen again. In the 15 years before 2019, my house had 2 outages of more than 4 hours, and neither was more than 8 hours which means back up would take about 1000 years to pay back.
I would focus much more on V2H where you can use your EV battery as a battery backup at home.