Power stations for power cuts
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A portable power station can keep a few essentials going in a power cut. It can't run your home's wiring and shouldn't be connected to it. Start with the main guide, then size it for the things you'd want to keep running.
Our guides compare manufacturers' published specs. Ferncharge has not tested any of these products.
Start here
- Portable power station for power cuts: what it can and can't run, sizes, official advice, reporting a cut on 105, and the Priority Services Register (Customer Care Registers in Northern Ireland).
Sizing for what you'd keep running (A to Z)
- CPAP machine: planning figures only. Check with your equipment supplier or clinician.
- Electric blanket: runtimes and safety advice.
- Router and Wi-Fi: keeping broadband on, and what happens to digital landlines.
Tools and safety
- What size power station do I need? (calculator): add your appliances and hours to get a capacity and output figure, with the working shown.
- Power station runtime calculator: how long a power station of a given size will run one appliance.
- Power station safety: official UK advice on charging, indoor use, generators and carbon monoxide, and flying.
- Power station specs compared: manufacturers' published specs side by side, in alphabetical order.
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