Some willing to pay for power to avoid outages

Matthew des Tombe cannot afford to lose power. He has lived on the Coastside for about a decade, and the entire time he has worked remotely.
“If the power goes out for me — and it did — it’s kind of big a deal,” des Tombe said. “I have big meetings, important things I generally can’t miss.”
That’s why des Tombe made sure to pair his roof-top solar panels with a backup battery, a choice he says proved well worth the investment during the PG&E power shut-offs last October. When the shut-offs happened, the Poplar Beach neighborhood where des Tombe lives went dark — all except his home, which remained illuminated. Except for a split-second flicker, all his appliances were running.

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