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When the Lights Go Out: The Plain English Guide to Home Backup Power: Generators, Solar, and Batteri
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Aug 21, 2026
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9798193974871

When the Lights Go Out: The Plain English Guide to Home Backup Power: Generators, Solar, and Batteri

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The next outage is already coming. Will your house even notice?
The ice storm hit on a Thursday. By Friday morning, half a million homes had no heat, no water, and no way to charge a phone. For some families, it stayed that way for nine days.

Here is what a backup power dealer learns after thousands of those phone calls: almost nobody plans for an outage before it happens. They plan during one. Standing in a cold, dark kitchen, on a dying phone, trying to buy a generator that sold out three hours ago.

This book exists so that is never you.

Kenneth Grigsby has spent years explaining backup power at kitchen tables across ice storm and tornado country. No jargon, no fear, no sales pitch. If you can read a grocery list, you can read this book.

By the last page, you will know exactly what fits your home and your budget.

  • Size it right in twenty minutes, and avoid the oversized machine trap that costs thousands too much
  • Choose portable, standby, solar, or battery with honest tradeoffs from someone who sells all of them
  • Claim the rebates and tax credits most buyers never collect
  • Spot a bad installer with six questions a real professional answers easily
  • Keep your family safe from the carbon monoxide mistake that has no second chances
  • Build a one page Family Outage Plan anyone in the house can follow

Plus the true stories no other guide can offer. Twelve real service calls, details changed, showing how good equipment fails and what small mistakes cost. The generator that ate three batteries. The extension cord that nearly burned a house down. The propane tank everyone was sure was full.

Includes a storm by storm regional guide, a plain English glossary, twenty four frequently asked questions, and seven fill in worksheets.

You are not buying a machine. You are buying back every future storm.
Scroll up and get your copy today, and download the free Outage Plan Kit at powerupgen.com.

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Pub dateAug 21, 2026
ISBN-109798193974871
ISBN-139798193974871
LanguageEnglish
Last updated 2026-09-07 22:58
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