A whole-house standby generator typically increases home value by 3% to 5%, but the actual impact depends on your location, local power reliability, installation quality and the generator's age, fuel ...

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After Hurricane Ike knocked out electricity to most of Houston in 2008, my 83-year-old father fired up his portable generator, running extension cords through an open kitchen window to a handful of ...