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I like to do that keep my house at a cool and comfortable 68 degrees year round. This love would be better if I lived near the Pacific Ocean, or in a small house, or in a new house with modern wool instead of paper and horse hair.

However, I live in a 2,000-plus-square-foot house that was built in 1906. It’s in Kansas City, which has a bad, humid climate. Missouri’s weather is notoriously cold with heavy rains that often block city roads and burst water pipes throughout town. Summer is famous hot and humid and thunderstorms almost every day, when the cross-continental boundary collides in the pancake-flat center. Spring and fall are great, but they last six to eight weeks combined, meaning we have a solid 20 days of window-free weather.

I moved into this house last August. It is twice as big and 40 years older than my old house. I knew my electricity bills were going to go up. In September, my first full month in my new place, I decided to throw caution to the wind and set the thermostat to my preferred temperature and see what would happen. I had an electric bill of $372. After thinking about selling more plasma, I spent the cold winter months finding ways to avoid the hot and sticky summer.

The solution to my energy problem, and one that I hope many will soon embrace is smart home battery storage.

When all battery backups at home It may seem like it’s reserved for sun lovers, preppers, or those with special medical needs, but it’s becoming an essential tool for many homeowners. Their value goes beyond just keeping the refrigerator running during power outages.

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To see if whole home backup would work for my home, I tried it Anker Solix E10 system. The $7,200 setup, which includes two batteries and a power port, is much cheaper than my other option: moving to San Diego, although that option gets better burritos. Despite the many changes, I estimate that the system will pay for itself in about five years, although Anker says it will be up to ten.

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Even the weather in Kansas City provides like free days like pretty much anywhere in the united states, his electric company caters to my need to live in a climate controlled home with a long term billing system. This is becoming increasingly common, as utilities try to encourage time-shifting to avoid stress on their grid as well build their base to provide good prices for industrial and power hungry customers data center.

Along with the two largest metro areas in Missouri, cities like Denver, Phoenix, and the rest of California also offer long-term discounts on usage.