The only way that I would recommend installing a battery power backup system was if you already had solar or you have plans to implement solar into your residence

because the solar panels would obviously regenerate the power that your batteries would then

subsequently need.

Welcome to the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast, a regular discussion with building industry

professionals.

This is Senior Editor Patrick McComb.

Today I'm joined by electrician and generator dealer J.P. Ship.

You could find the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast and the original Fine Home Building podcast at

finehomebuilding.com slash podcast. You can leave feedback and ask questions there too.

JP, thank you so much for being on the show. Patrick, thank you for having me.

It is a pleasure, sir. Can you please tell me about your business? We've had a couple of electricians on the show, and you all do

different things. How's yours set up? Yeah, so our mix is probably a little different than most

electricians. Seems like every electricians has their niches and the types of work that they figured out that they could make the most profit in.

We actually started off as a residential service-based electrician company just doing service work, residential homes.

That grew pretty quickly into the generator space.

We actually were asked by a lot of generator, other installers, to wire their generators.

We're like, why are we not installing the generators?

So then we're just like, okay, let's get on.

I'm sorry to interrupt you, but why didn't they want to do it?

I mean, that doesn't make sense to me.

They needed to have a master electricians on staff.

In our area, in Toronto County, Maryland, they're really strict about permitting and making

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