A home battery that doesn't care whether you have solar panels or not? EcoFlow's Stream AC 5000 sounds made for renters and apartments, but can you actually use one in Ireland yet? Can't get solar pan

Five kilowatt-hours of storage, room for twelve solar panels and a socket that can keep a heater going in a power cut. Anker's latest Solarbank has reviewers talking, but is it one for Irish homes? So

Fill it up on cheap night-rate electricity, use it in the evening when power is dear, and all you need is a socket. That's the pitch for plug-in home batteries. But can you actually use one that way i