In a newly built Modern neighborhood the houses are all built to the same basic “set of standards”, that includes an ups or a battery with the solar installation.

A lot of people who say they are “techy” aren’t actually all that techy, they just have a laptop with a server and Linux. It’s pretty dang common to have ups or battery’s when actual modern tech is installed in a house.

Even infills in older neighbourhoods are frequent enough that there should be plenty.

Or try living in the suburbs where you gotta get gas trucked in, you’re gonna want backups.

We don’t have fluctuating energy prices like that, it’s set for 24 hours. Commercial/industrial customers can have varying rates.

Selling to the grid here is useless, you can’t sell more than you use. So if you use zero, you can’t sell any back. You can only sell to offset what you used.

So say you buy $100 from the grid this month, you can only sell back that $100 dollars, you can’t profit from it.

It’s common with stuff like balcony solar systems so you have a way to store some power easily.

There’s different levels and stages of being “techy”. Just having a passion for computers and data is only one. Most of my techy friends are into solar as well.

Weird, with solar being so easy to install, most people I know want a way to store it.

Where do you live that this isn’t the case?

A LOT of people have networks and systems on UPS’s, so that’ll tell you nothing much really.

I can still watch media on my tablets if the power goes out.