On the Coastal Bend, hurricane season isn't an abstraction — it's a date on the calendar. VirtuGrid installs a whole-home backup battery at no upfront cost, so when the next storm takes down the AEP Texas grid, your home keeps running.
Living on the Gulf means living with this list:
Landfall at Rockport, just up the coast — communities across the Coastal Bend went dark, some for weeks, while recovery crews worked through the wreckage.
A direct hit to South Texas that knocked out power to roughly two hundred thousand homes and businesses across the region in the middle of summer.
Even the coast froze — blackouts rolled through Corpus Christi for days in temperatures the Gulf Coast was never built for.
Hurricanes will keep coming — that part isn't up to us. Whether your family rides them out with the lights on and the fridge cold, that part now is.
VirtuGrid serves homeowners across Corpus Christi and the Coastal Bend — inside the AEP Texas service territory, where the retail electricity market is deregulated and you choose who supplies your power.
VirtuGrid supplies and installs a whole-home backup battery at no upfront cost. We own it, monitor it, and maintain it for the life of the program — nothing for you to manage.
While the grid is up, your battery works alongside thousands of others across Texas to support it. That's the revenue that funds your free battery and your lower rate.
The instant the grid drops, the energy reserved in your battery is yours and your home switches over automatically. The outage everyone else feels never reaches you.
You also get a low, all-in electricity rate that's typically below what you're paying now — many households save around 30% versus their prior bill.*
*Savings compared to typical local utility pricing. Actual savings vary by utility, plan, household usage, and energy-market conditions, and are not guaranteed.
There's no purchase price and no install bill — VirtuGrid covers the equipment and installation, and we own and maintain the system. In exchange, you take your electricity through our program for the term of the agreement. The full trade is spelled out in plain English on our main page.
Fair question — coastal outages can stretch long past a day. On battery alone, most homes run 18–36 hours on a full charge. But we're a solutions-based company, so our systems include a small solar component that recharges the batteries while the grid is down. That's what turns backup power from a Band-Aid into a solution.
Generally you'll need to own your home in the AEP Texas service area and have a suitable spot for the battery. The fastest way to find out is the 30-second check — no credit check, no obligation.
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