Electric Power

I used to think Idaho Power was disappointingly unreliable.  Appalachian Power is no better, even in pretty good weather.  Third power outage since we arrived.  There is a reason our neighbor has a generator. 

I considered solar to backup a battery.  If we had outages that lasted for days on end, this might make sense. I am looking into just battery backup: systems that use a big battery to provide power for essential circuits (A/C, refrigerator, microwave oven). Electric range has huge surge demands. Other essentials such as BiPAP can use a smaller backup for that particular device. There is little need for the PCs: much of what they do requires Internet and without power, the whole Internet is down unless I switch to Starlink.

UPDATE: emailed bills went somewhere mysterious; automatic checking withdrawal takes 2-3 months to start so this was power turned off for non-payment.  Literally within seconds of entering the last digit of my Discover card number,  power came on.