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Every house on my private road has a genset for backup.
The $1.5M house at the end of the road has an automatic backup system that kicks in when the power goes down with the battery providing power until the genset can pickup the load.
When I retire, I plan to move and build a house. It will have solar with batteries and those will provide backup should line power go down. Right now it isn't really practical for me to add solar to my current property - too many trees.
Most of our outages are either from wind or ice/snow knocking down trees and/or limbs. Occasionally we have a car wreck take out a power pole. During widespread outages we are usually last to get the power restored as we are a small number of customers and out in the boonies.
The price of living in the "outback" so to speak
I would VERY much love to have a place far off the beaten path so to speak some day. One of those whole house gen sets would be fantastic since I like all the creature comforts along with no one living near me