Author Scott Grant

About Me

I spent a good part of my working life on the retail floor of a solar equipment store, selling portable power stations and solar generator kits to people who had no idea what they actually needed. That was not a criticism of them. The specs are genuinely confusing, the marketing is deliberately vague, and almost nobody walks in knowing the difference between rated capacity and what a unit will actually deliver under load. My job was supposed to be moving product. What it turned into, over time, was explaining things honestly and watching people leave with something that fit their situation instead of something that fit the margin sheet.

The part that never stopped bothering me was how avoidable most bad purchases were. Not because buyers were careless, but because the information they needed to make a good decision was either buried in a spec sheet or missing entirely from every article they had read. I kept mental notes on the questions that came up again and again. What the box says versus what the unit actually runs. Why cheap and good are not opposites in this category. What real charging looks like on a cloudy afternoon in December, not a lab in ideal conditions.

I left retail to build an off-grid homestead in rural Nevada. My property runs entirely on solar generator power. I have owned and run units from Jackery, EcoFlow, Bluetti, Anker, and Goal Zero through real conditions: multi-day winter outages, full-time daily use, high-draw appliances overnight, panel charging when the sun is low. Some units held up. Some did not. All of it went into this site.

What This Site Is

Pick My Solar Generator covers one subject: portable solar generators for US buyers. Not rooftop solar, not permanent home battery systems, not anything that does not directly help someone figure out which unit to buy and whether it will actually do the job they need. Every recommendation on this site starts with a sizing calculation. If the watt-hour math does not support the pick, the pick does not go in the article.

If you have ever read three buying guides and come away with three different answers and no clearer sense of what you actually need, this site is for you. The goal is not to send you somewhere to buy something. The goal is to get you to a decision you will not regret after the next power outage.