Photo Credit: Duke Energy
Solar panels have an incredible ability, not just to supply electricity for day-to-day needs and lower electric bills, but to keep the power on when the grid goes down.
That ability was demonstrated in two ways during Hurricane Helene, the Charlotte Observer recounted. Western North Carolina communities left without power in the wake of the disaster turned to new programs for supplying solar energy.
One, the Footprint Project, brought its mobile power station to Poplar, per the article. That station consisted of a Tesla battery and 18 movable solar panels that could be set up in a field. One such station powered a community center, and the other ran the center’s well pump to supply water.
