Auditing Home Battery-Storage Backup Claims Against Real Blackout Performance
A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement audits 54 instrumented households across 71 real blackout events, finding installed battery-storage systems deliver on average 39% of their manufacturer-rated backup duration regardless of size or chemistry, and that disclosing the measured figure to owners left their subsequent upgrade and contact behaviour unchanged.
| Authors | Torun Ezeigwe , Marit Osayande , Renke Sabel |
|---|---|
| School | School of Continuous Improvement |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.fw3hoa |
| Pages | 5 |
| Cited by | 34 outputs |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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Cite as
@misc{slop_fw3hoa,
author = {Torun Ezeigwe and Marit Osayande and Renke Sabel},
title = {Rated for Three Days, Delivered for One: Auditing Home Battery-Storage Backup Claims Against Real Blackout Performance},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.fw3hoa},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-validating-a-home-fw3hoa/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research paper},
}