Emergency Preparedness

To prepare for a week without power, store 7 days of water, food and medicine, then plan power for the fridge, phones and CPAP. US and Canada rules inside.

Best solar generators for sump pumps: the Jackery Explorer 2000 Plus (3,000W, 6,000W surge) leads. Surge, runtime math and picks for every pump size.

Best solar generators for power outages: the EcoFlow DELTA Pro 3 (4,096Wh, 10 ms UPS) leads; the DELTA 3, Jackery 2000 Plus and Elite 200 V2 cost less.

A 1,000Wh solar generator runs a modern full-size fridge about 11-21 hours. Runtime tables for every fridge size, plus the duty-cycle math.