When PG&E pulls
the plug, stay online.
A seasonal standby satellite kit for Bay homes in fire country — pre-positioned before shutoff season, battery included, ready before the outage. When the power and the cable go dark, you keep working from home. Think insurance, not a weekly rental.
Founding season rate: 10% off our first 5 standby reservations
PSPS season is coming.
Every fall, the same script. Red-flag wind warnings, a notice from the utility, and the grid goes dark across the hills — sometimes for hours, sometimes for days. Cable cuts out. Cell towers run their backup batteries down. And your home office goes with them.
The shutoff is planned — your outage isn't
A Public Safety Power Shutoff can be called with barely a day's warning and last well past 48 hours. You find out you needed a backup the morning it's already too late to get one.
Cable and cell die together
When the grid drops, the cable modem is dead and nearby cell sites fall back to batteries that don't last a multi-day event. A hotspot is only as good as a tower that's still up.
Working from home stops working
No meetings, no email, no uploads — a missed deadline or a burned PTO day every time the wind picks up. For a remote household, an outage isn't an inconvenience; it's lost income.
Set up before the storm — not during it.
The whole point is that nothing is left to the last minute. Your kit is on-site and ready before the season starts, so an outage is a non-event.
Reserve a season kit
Pay one flat $400 retainer before fire season. It reserves a unit for your household and puts you first in line for deployment — no scramble, no quote forms. You only pay the day/week rental rate on the days a shutoff actually takes you offline.
We pre-position it
Ahead of shutoff season we deliver the satellite kit and battery to your home, set it up, and confirm a clear sky view — then leave it staged and ready. Nothing to ship when it counts.
The outage hits — you stay online
Power drops, cable goes dark — you flip to satellite running on the battery and keep working. No truck to wait on, because the kit is already there.
We support it through the event
Priority help on call the whole time the shutoff is declared — and at season's end we collect the kit, or you roll it into next year.
A backup that's ready before you need it.
Pre-positioned kit
Delivered, set up, and staged at your home before shutoff season — sky view checked in advance. When the outage hits there's nothing to order and nothing to wait for.
Battery & power
A power station is included, so the kit keeps running with the grid down. Sized to carry a work session through a shutoff and topped back up when power blips return.
Satellite — works when cable & cell die
It's satellite internet, not another cellular hotspot. It keeps you online exactly when the wired ISP is dead and overloaded towers fall back to dwindling batteries.
Priority during declared shutoffs
When a PSPS event is called, standby plan holders come first. We're on call the entire time the shutoff is active — so you're never troubleshooting alone in the dark.
Covers ISP outages too
Not just power shutoffs. If your home internet drops on a clear, powered day — a cut line, a regional ISP failure — the same staged kit gets you working again.
Setup & support, end to end
Local delivery, on-site setup, season-long support, and pickup or renewal at the end — all in one flat seasonal price. You never touch a manual.
One season rate, a unit held for you.
A flat $400 seasonal retainer reserves a unit and priority deployment — pre-positioned, battery-included, set up and supported. It converts to our day/week rental rate only on the days a shutoff actually pulls you offline. Turn the recurring dread of fire season into one line item.
Founding season rate: 10% off our first 5 standby reservations
Seasonal Standby Retainer
Multi-building property, or a business keeping a whole team online? That's a custom quote. Refundable $600 damage deposit on the kit.
Lock in my standby retainerQuestions, answered.
How fast does it kick in when an outage starts?
Instantly — because it's already there. On a standby plan the kit is pre-positioned and set up at your home before the season, so when a shutoff or outage hits there's nothing to deliver and nothing to wait on. You switch to satellite on the battery and keep working.
Will the battery last a multi-day shutoff?
The included power station is sized to carry a normal work session, and it tops back up whenever power briefly returns or from optional solar. For longer multi-day events we'll right-size the battery for your usage when we quote the plan, and you can add capacity. We talk through realistic runtime before you reserve — no guesswork.
Does it cover regular internet outages, or only power shutoffs?
Both. The plan is built for fire-season power shutoffs, but the same staged kit covers any home-internet outage — a cut line or a regional ISP failure on a clear, powered day. Whenever your connection drops, the backup is right there.
Why satellite instead of a cellular hotspot?
A hotspot depends on a nearby cell tower — and in a shutoff those towers run down their backup batteries fast and overload. Satellite internet doesn't lean on the local grid or the cable network, so it stays up precisely when cable and cell go dark.
Is it recurring? Can I cancel?
It's a seasonal plan, not a long lock-in. You pay once for the fire season; at the end we pick the kit up or you renew for next year — your choice. No auto-charge surprises, and you can decline to renew anytime before the next season starts.
Who is this for?
Bay Area homes and remote properties in fire country — the Oakland and Berkeley hills, Montclair, West Marin, and Sonoma/Napa ridgelines — where shutoffs are routine and someone in the house works online. If a dark grid means lost work, a standby kit pays for itself the first event.
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