[biosurfer1]

Before you spend potentially thousands on a back up generator, I would have PG&E pull an outage report on your house.

I know they have a huge territory, but after a couple shut offs in my area, everyone had the same bug to buy whole house generators. In the past 15 years, the power has been off at my house for a total of 4 hours involuntary, and 4 days due to the PSPS.

While the PSPS shut offs were annoying, only once did it cause us to throw out food and actually cost us money.

A couple days every decade or two of the power being out would never, ever pay back. I'd have to value the convenience of having power during those rare outages at a crazy level to justify a whole house generator, especially over a small generator to run the fridge and couple other devices.

Your house might have more frequent shutoffs which is why I suggest having them send you a report...it's worth it to have all the info before dropping that kind of coin