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@ LITD: Just a FYI... Our local preemptive utility shutdowns that our rural utility company does is not Gov't mandated, it's the local Utility Co's call as far as their fire safety concerns regarding trees/limbs falling on active Utility Power Lines causing them to start fires. Most home use...

Wow lots of good info being shared! With all these options it looks like I am leaning towards putting together a plan to solve my immediate summer AC need during any hot weather outage by adding a 10-kw generator with a future plan to implement some level of battery + solar over time in...

Thanks for the great ideas/suggestions! I will still keep looking for a MEP-003a, or perhaps an 803a, just to consider all sources of 10 kw backup. I like the idea of batteries for nighttime backup situations and possibly to offset some % when on utility power. Haven't spent a lot of time...

My 5 kW MEP-002a with ~7 kW surge capacity work just fine in WINTER, when most of our local utility outages occur, with a little load management since I don't need AC then. However, we are now facing more & more issues with fire danger out here during our peak hot dry low humidity summer...