A few months ago, a sudden power outage changed the way I think about electricity. It wasn’t dramatic — no storm, no warning — just silence. My Wi-Fi died mid-call, the fan stopped spinning, and my phone battery sat at 9%.

For years I told myself outages were rare enough to ignore. But that night stretched into hours, and I realized how dependent daily life really is on reliable power. I didn’t want a loud fuel generator sitting on my balcony, and storing gasoline in an apartment wasn’t ... Read more »