Leading home renewable energy company Nature’s Generator introduced the MyGrid 10K at the Earl Warren Showgrounds’ Santa Barbara Home Show. The MyGrid is a 10,000W plug-and-play whole-house generator powered by durable, thermally stable LifePO4 batteries. By acting as a home’s own grid, the MyGrid-10K lowers regular electricity bills, provides power during blackouts, and promotes sustainable energy.
The MyGrid-10K may be used in houses with solar panels but no battery storage, or it can be fitted with solar panels and battery storage. Because it provides power to the house in an emergency, battery storage is crucial rather than leaving a household without electricity.
Electricity demand frequently exceeds supply in the US power grid, leading to increasingly frequent outages. Unexpected power outages disrupt work, ruin food, and even pose a threat to life. Battery storage is crucial when you consider climate change and extreme weather, which forces utilities to turn off electricity during strong winds to prevent wildfires or during heat waves to prevent air conditioner grid congestion.
Nature’s Generator CEO, Lawrence Zhou, explains, “MyGrid-10K ($5,999) gives an affordable option to Tesla’s Powerwall. Plus, because it doesn’t feed energy to the grid, but stores it for home use, utility company approval isn’t typically required – meaning MyGrid setup only takes minutes, while competitors’ installations can take days or even months.”
Zhou continues, “A show favorite was Nature’s Generator 50AMP Automatic Transfer Switch which often is combined with MyGrid-10K to manage power transfers between grid and home-generated solar power. MyGrid-10K has a 10,496Wh capacity, an impressive 6,000 life-cycles, an inverter sporting 10,000W continuous-power-output – plus, pair two units for up to 20,000W continuous-power-output with an operating-time capacity expandable to up to 140-kilowatt-hours.”
“For context, most U.S. homes use between 10 to 40 kilowatt hours per day with size of home, number of people, local climate, appliance efficiency, and other factors impacting usage. MyGrid features an open-box battery stack-up, providing flexibility to increase battery storage as needed. And, for EV owners, MyGrid-10K provides an outlet for convenient car charging.”
The MyGrid-10K is a powerful device that is nevertheless accessible to the average person. The MyGrid-10K’s freestanding design, which enables it to be moved to a new residence, makes it a whole-home solution for renters. The same type of return on investment that whole-home solar systems have long provided homeowners is now available to renters.
The Nature’s Generator Lithium 3600 ($1,999) was recommended if the MyGrid-10K had more power than audience members need. If a small portable generator was all that was required, the Lithium 1800 ($999) was suggested.
Regardless of the power requirements of the audience, Nature’s Generator provided the answer. The lesson learned was that purchasing reasonably priced Nature’s Generator battery storage mitigates power outage issues, lowers carbon emissions, and generates substantial long-term financial savings through the collection of free solar energy.
