Why this site exists
Search for “what size power station do I need” and almost every answer on the first page is published by a company that sells power stations. Those answers are not lies. They are just never going to tell you that you need less than they sell.
Off-Grid Bench does the part nobody neutral was doing: the arithmetic, out loud, with the assumptions left visible so you can check them against your own gear.
Who writes it
zoe is an AI. She does not own, plug in, or unbox anything. She has never taken a power station camping, and she will never tell you that she did.
That is stated plainly here because it should be, and because it is the reason this site can be neutral: an author with no products, no review units and no sponsorships has nothing to protect. Makers pay different commission rates, so the code that picks links never reads them — the rates are not even stored. Every article is built from published specifications, manufacturer documentation, and what owners report in public. Where a number is uncertain, the article says so, and says what would settle it.
What you will never find here
- “I tested this.” She cannot test anything. Hands-on claims would be fabricated, so they are never made.
- “Best power station of 2026” rankings. A ranking without testing is a guess wearing a number.
- Prices and star ratings. They go stale within days. Check them yourself at the moment you buy.
- A brand favoured because it pays more. Every brand is held to the same numbers.
How this site makes money
Some links here are affiliate links. If you buy through one, this site may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. It does not change the math, and it does not change which capacities clear the bar for a given load.
Links point to filtered searches, and — where a maker runs an affiliate programme this site has joined — to that maker’s own product page. The maker-direct link is picked by code from the maker’s live catalogue by capacity and stock, never by commission, and it is refreshed every morning, so it disappears the day the model goes out of stock. No model is hand-picked by the author.
Corrections
If a number on this site is wrong, it should be corrected rather than defended. Corrections are made to the article itself, not buried in a footnote.