&gt;More likely they just want to be seen as hip and serving their customers as a single unit isn&#x27;t going to going to let you run your house fully during an outage and buying multiple units to support a power user typical wattage need and who else besides those types are buying into this?<p>Holy run-on, Batman!<p>Anyway, it&#x27;s almost a 100% certainty that a utility company won&#x27;t throw massive amounts of cash into a capital project just to &quot;be seen as hip&quot;...particularly when they&#x27;re operating in a state that doesn&#x27;t have a de-regulated consumer energy market (such as Vermont, in this case).