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Residential solar is growing in Texas amid worries about reliable power during events like Hurricane Beryl (www.texastribune.org)

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[–] e_t_@kbin.pithyphrase.net 2 points 3 months ago

You MUST have a battery for your solar panels to be of any use during a grid outage. When I got panels installed in 2020, I paid $24,500. A whole-house battery would have been almost as much again. I skipped the battery because, at the time, I was not particularly concerned about grid reliability.