In the middle of a five-day power outage brought on by an early spring storm, Woody Gontina’s house appeared to be the only one on his street that still had its lights on. At the time, Gontina had just installed a 5.4-kilowatt solar-and-battery-storage system at his home. “Because of the solar and the battery, we had our whole house powered day and night throughout that outage,” recalls Gontina. While Gontina could not have foreseen the storm’s impact, it was an early proof of concept for the