All kinds of things could bring down your electricity and sometimes for many hours or days. Make sure you are willing to possibly lose everything in your refrig/freezer and not have any power especially if you WFH. I think many people in Texas who only installed solar because electricity was so cheap there and the financial return too long, will be re-evaluating adding battery now when they can. Solar alone won’t do anything for you under outage conditions and won’t be able to send power to your house either. Dead like everything else in the house then.
Another reason to seriously consider adding battery back up now is that you will get charged a full Install fee (think around $5k?) if you do so later, even if you already have solar. Will require another permit to be pulled, plans to be drawn, utility approval and inspections and another truck and team sent out. Pretty much similar amount of paperwork and scheduling as for solar, plus there’s a lot of extra electrical work for any panels, Gateway2 and PWs. Do both at the same time and save money that way.
