Whole-Home Battery Backup
Keep Your Home Powered When the Grid Goes Down
Power outages don’t have to mean sitting in the dark, losing everything in your refrigerator, or scrambling to find a generator.
A whole-home battery backup system can automatically provide stored electricity when utility power goes out, helping keep the most important parts of your home running until power is restored.
At Gladiator Electric, we install modern home battery backup solutions from leading manufacturers, including EcoFlow and Anker, and help homeowners determine the right system for their home, power needs, and budget.
Fast backup power
A properly designed system can transition to battery power when utility electricity is lost.
No fuel storage
You don’t have to keep gasoline on hand or worry about refueling a portable generator during an extended outage.
Indoor convenience
There is no need to go outside during bad weather to start a portable generator.
Reliable Backup Power Without a Traditional Generator
Traditional generators have been the standard solution for backup power for decades. But battery technology has created another option.
Whole-home battery systems store electricity so it is available when you need it. Depending on how your system is configured, battery backup can help keep essential circuits—or potentially much more of your home—operating during an outage.
Prepare Your Home Before the Next Power Outage
Traditional generators have been the standard solution for backup power for decades. But battery technology has created another option.
Whole-home battery systems store electricity so it is available when you need it. Depending on how your system is configured, battery backup can help keep essential circuits—or potentially much more of your home—operating during an outage.
Whole-home battery systems store electricity so it is available when you need it, drawing power from the grid during normal conditions (or from rooftop solar, if you have it) and holding that energy in reserve until an outage strikes. When the lights go out, the system detects the loss almost instantly and switches over on its own, so there is no pull cord, no fuel run in the rain, and often no more than a brief flicker before your home carries on as before. Depending on how your system is configured, battery backup can help keep essential circuits running, such as the refrigerator, lighting, internet router, medical equipment, and a few outlets for charging phones, or potentially much more of your home, including heating and cooling, a well pump, or even an electric range, if the system is sized to carry those larger loads.
Reliable Backup Power Without a Traditional Generator
Traditional generators have been the standard solution for backup power for decades. But battery technology has created another option.
Whole-home battery systems store electricity so it is available when you need it. Depending on how your system is configured, battery backup can help keep essential circuits—or potentially much more of your home—operating during an outage.
Battery systems can be used to help power:
- Refrigerators and freezers
- Lights
- Internet and Wi-Fi
- Outlets
- Televisions and electronics
- Sump pumps
- Security systems
- Home offices
- Select heating and cooling equipment
- Medical or other essential electrical equipment
The amount of your home that can be powered, and for how long, depends on the size of the battery system and your household’s energy consumption.
How Whole-Home Battery Backup Works
When the grid goes down: Sensors detect the loss, and the system disconnects your home from the utility lines, a safety step that keeps electricity from flowing back out to the street where line crews may be working.
Backup power begins: The battery supplies stored energy to the circuits you chose to protect, often fast enough that a lamp barely flickers and a computer stays on.
No scramble: There are no extension cords to hunt for, no fuel to haul out, and no pull-start to fight with in the wind and rain, because the wiring was done in advance and your essential circuits simply stay live.
When grid power returns: The system confirms that utility power is stable, reconnects your home to the grid, and returns to normal operation on its own, with no switch to flip and no phone call to make.
Recharging: The battery refills from the grid or from your own solar panels the next day, so it is ready for the next interruption.