About Backup Battery Guide

Backup Battery Guide is a set of plain-English guides to home battery backup. They cover backup power for the home: whole-home batteries, portable power stations, sizing and costs, solar generators, batteries compared with generators, and installation and incentives.

Who writes the guides

The guides are written by the Backup Battery Guide team.

How the guides are made

• Every fact, figure and price is checked against a reliable source, and the sources are listed on each page.
• Prices are quoted with the date we checked them, in the stated currency.
• Each guide shows the date it was last updated.

How we make money

Through affiliate commissions on some of the products we write about. See our affiliate disclosure.