“Having reliable backup power gives me peace of mind and independence from the grid,” says Appelman, who plans to install another Banner battery-based system in his new penthouse condominium in New York. “We’re already working it into our plans,” he says. “We’ve built a separate room for the system and are talking about adding a solar component, too.”

Client
Barry Appelman

Location
McLean, VA

Description
Single-family residence

Critical equipment
Multiple computers and servers, music and audio equipment, televisions, satellite and TIVO, household appliances, various electronics, exercise equipment. “You name it, I have it,” says Barry Appelman, the AOL executive who brought us instant messaging.

Customer since
2000

Problem
“In our area, we experience a lot of short dropouts in power—sometimes more than once a week,” Appelman says. “The outages are a big annoyance.”

Solution
Banner Power installed a [BPS-11,000/16 ] X-bank, X-volt battery-based system to keep the Appelman household fully operational during the frequent grid failures. “Having emergency backup power is more a matter of convenience for us than a critical issue,” Appelman says. “But I can tell you that I wouldn’t want to be running on the treadmill when the power went off.”