Seems easier to get a generator or a Power Wall, but either ends up being pretty expensive for handling the 2 hours of rolling blackouts for the first time in 20 years. There are also longer-term outages, maybe several hours every few years? And this is for people in population centers. Living in the mountains is a different story.
> Im thinking just from a national security/redundancy/risk reduction standpoint it makes sense to move more generation closer to demand
I'd rather put the money towards removing those single points of failure.
The price of electricity changes over the day along with demand. I don't know by how much, but maybe if the Power Wall could be used in the high-cost hours and charged in the low-cost hours, it would make a difference?
Im thinking just from a national security/redundancy/risk reduction standpoint it makes sense to move more generation closer to demand. There are lots of single points of failure in our power grid currently.
Edit: this is assuming the solar setup is designed to enable use when power is out; I assume homeowners who care about empowerment would make that investment, but you know what they say about assuming.