Lightning deal: The Anker Solix S2000 power station is almost half off (but only today)
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Consumer backup power getting cheaper is a reminder that resilience is drifting from centralized utilities to distributed hardware. For product teams in home energy and IoT, assume more households will have local storage and design around that baseline.
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