About this site
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This site helps you keep the essentials running when the power goes out: heat, the fridge and freezer, a sump pump, a CPAP, the internet. It explains what a portable power station or a home battery can really run, for how long, and how to connect it safely, with the math and the sources on every page.
Who writes it
The guides are researched and written by Sam Lacasse, an independent writer based in Quebec, Canada, where long winter outages and ice storms are part of life. The author publishes under a pen name. We are not electricians, retailers or manufacturers, and we do not sell anything.
What the guides are based on
Every guide cites its sources at the bottom of the page and says what we checked and what we did not. We have not tested the products we cover. Capacities, outputs and limits come from the makers’ own documents; safety advice comes from public bodies. See how we research.
Why the house and the outage mode
You do not shop for a power station in the abstract: you want your furnace, your fridge or your CPAP to keep going. That is why the home page is a house you can tap room by room. And because many readers arrive during an outage, on a phone, every page has an Outage mode: dark, high-contrast pages that are easy to read by flashlight.
How the site is funded
Through affiliate commissions only, once we join affiliate programs. See our affiliate disclosure.