What you need to know about buying a home standby generator
Oct 19, 2020
3 minutes
BY DAVID AGRELL AND JOSEPH TRUINI
POWER OUTAGES are unavoidable and they are increasing in both frequency and duration. Nearly 60 per cent of all blackouts in the US are caused by violent storms, but 34 per cent are caused by equipment failure. (Editor’s note: In South Africa, in the case of Eskom, this figure is much, much higher.) So what’s a homeowner to do?
One option is a standby generator. Within seconds of a blackout,
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