Backup Power
Generator and battery backup power solutions in Kansas and Missouri for homes, farms, and businesses.
A power backup for your home can be indispensable when conventional electricity fails. A generator or battery backup keeps heating, cooling, refrigerators, lights, and more running like normal even when the power grid goes down. Outages can be dangerous for your family (pets included) and can cause property damage like frozen pipes, water damage, flooded basements, mold, spoiled food, and more. A backup power system from Cromwell Solar can keep the sump pump, furnace, and AC working and the power on for hours or even days.
For business (and home business/remote work), a power loss carries the same risks of property damage as power outages at a house, but also includes losing phones, productivity, and spoiling stock. Even a 10-minute power outage can result in lost business and customers moving elsewhere.
A Generac generator installed by Cromwell in a backyard.
Backup power systems protect your ability to keep working and might even attract more business. Be the only store or restaurant open in your area during an outage and you will attract new customers. Uninterrupted power is a selling point to attract more guests, residents, or patients.
Power outages happen more now than ever. The combination of more extreme weather events and an aging, weaker electric grid have meant a doubling of outages over the past few years. The grid is now vulnerable to extreme heat and cold events as well as the traditional outages from wind and ice. It is an unfortunate fact that events that take the grid down occur at times we need power the most.
Control your own power and keep your family safe and your business running with a backup power system from Cromwell.
Advantages of battery backup power vs generators
A backup battery power supply means power. security and peace of mind.
Both battery power systems and generators offer the same end result — continuous electricity — but each has separate advantages. Battery backup power systems like Tesla Powerwalls can be charged from the grid or from solar panels, and can power an average home for a full day or more. Generators require fuel, but they can be used for multiple days, or even weeks in a row. A battery backup by itself may not last as long as a generator, but when paired with solar panels can provide continuous power for far longer.
Generators are less expensive than battery backup systems but do require some routine maintenance like oil changes to function. The typical cost for a whole home backup generator is about $15,000 to $18,000 while a battery system might run $26,000 to $42,000 after an available 30% tax credit (not available for generators) depending on the size of the battery selected.
Backup power system options from Cromwell Solar
Cromwell Solar offers both battery backup systems using equipment such as Tesla Powerwalls, Panasonic Evervolts, Enphase IQs, and backup power generator systems from Generac, Cat, and others. We install backup power systems throughout Kansas and Missouri.
Cromwell’s offices are backed up by three Tesla Powerwalls.
There are some important considerations to ensure that a battery backup, generator, and/or solar work well together. If you have a solar power system or might get solar in the future, you should work with an expert familiar with the integration of solar, battery power systems, and generators.
You don’t need to purchase solar panels from Cromwell or even have solar at all to have the professional electricians at Cromwell Solar install your generator or battery backup system at your home or business. You can rest assured that any battery or generator we install will work well with the solar you have now, or that the solar you install will work with any battery backup power you might have installed someday in the future. Future-proof your home or business power investment in Kansas or Missouri by using the energy experts at Cromwell Solar.