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OldEnoughToKnowButtr t1_j22g3ml wrote

Great discussion! Thanks to OP for posting and starting this discussion.

I've lived in S NH since the mid 80s and have noticed power failures getting more common. (I recall getting out my portable Honda generator for a failure and noticing that I had last serviced it and put it away ten year previous! Now it seems to be a yearly occurrence.)

I'm thinking hard about solar but live in a neighborhood with a HOA that may prevent solar from showing from the street. My house faces south, so need to do more research into les visible.

If using V2G how do you make the decision to stop and keep some range for the vehicle?

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GraniteGeekNH OP t1_j23xqdg wrote

I also live in S NH, for 30 years, and have noticed far fewer power failures in the past five years, so there's that.

I credit the person down the street on the same distribution line as me; they spent big bucks on a whole-house generation system. Power hasn't gone out since.

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OldEnoughToKnowButtr t1_j26f39b wrote

Ha! Isn't that how it works?! ;-) I do think that the big ice storm took out lots of trees, so the benefit is that we get a few years of less outages from trees. ... Until the trees grow back and another big ice storm, at least.

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