{"id":343912,"date":"2026-01-19T03:03:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T03:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/home-solar-in-rural-america-how-much-battery-do-you-need-to-run-a-well-pump\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T03:03:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T03:03:34","slug":"home-solar-in-rural-america-how-much-battery-do-you-need-to-run-a-well-pump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/home-solar-in-rural-america-how-much-battery-do-you-need-to-run-a-well-pump\/","title":{"rendered":"Home solar in rural America: how much battery do you need to run a well pump?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/home-solar-in-rural-america-how-much-battery-do-you-need-to-run-a-well-pump.png\" \/>There\u2019s no shortage of advice on how to size a home solar system, but most of it assumes a suburban house with city water and a long list of optional loads. Rural homes play by different rules, and when your water comes from a well, keeping the lights on is optional \u2014 but keeping the well\u2019s pump running isn\u2019t. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/01\/18\/home-solar-in-rural-america-how-much-battery-do-you-need-to-run-a-well-pump\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/home-solar-in-rural-america-how-much-battery-do-you-need-to-run-a-well-pump\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":343913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}