Solar panels can only generate electricity; they can’t store it, so you must pair them with a stand-alone battery bank or a power station. For home emergency power (for a few hours of power), we ...

Sun Flare Systems is a Canadian company that has developed a solar-powered backup generator. Designed to provide power in cases of outage and disaster, the patent-pending SOS in a Box kit is basically ...

Q: We were hit hard by the recent ice storm and lost power for two days. It was miserable trying to deal with the cold and lack of refrigeration. How practical is it to have a portable generator to ...