It's a Monday afternoon, and you've just finished putting away the groceries for the week. You're so excited to try a new recipe that you're considering rearranging your weekly meal plan to make it tonight.

Suddenly, the power goes out.

This power outage is more than just an inconvenience. The average American household spends $270 per week on groceries. If you've just gone shopping, a single outage lasting more than a few hours will spoil all that food, and you'll have to spend hundreds more to replace it.

The cost can be even higher if you have medications like insulin that must stay refrigerated. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 705,000 households in 2023 said that their refrigerated medicine spoiled during an extended outage, leaving thousands of people in potentially life-threatening situations.

Given the integral role a refrigerator plays in modern life, it seems impossible that no dedicated layer of protection exists. After all, a smartphone has a case, a car has insurance and a laptop has a warranty. Why doesn't an appliance that runs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to keep food, drinks, medications and baby formula safe from spoiling have emergency power in case the lights go out?

The power partner your fridge has always deserved

When an outage occurs, you shouldn't have to worry about the perishable items in your fridge going bad. The good news is that refrigerator power protection now exists.

Jackery — a global leader in home backup, innovative solar generators and clean off-grid energy solutions — has risen to the occasion to create FridgeGuard. This purpose-built home backup system is designed specifically to keep a refrigerator (and other household essentials) running through a power outage, protecting the valuable food and other temperature-sensitive items it houses.

When the lights go out, a 10ms UPS automatic switchover allows you to rest easy knowing that in less than a blink of an eye, your refrigerator's power partner will respond. That means your food stays cold, your medicine stays safe, and your life can continue uninterrupted, even though the power has gone out and you don't know when it will come back on.

FridgeGuard isn't just another power station adapted for home use. Jackery thoughtfully designed this refrigerator backup from the ground up as a home product, one that belongs in a modern kitchen just like a premium appliance.

Unlike traditional generators, this refrigerator-specific power solution is simple to operate and there's no moving once placed: a one-time set up allows you to stay ready for whenever outages happen. All you need to do is take the FridgeGuard out of the box, plug it into the wall and plug the refrigerator into the FridgeGuard. No installation required. Simple setup, and you're covered without a second thought.

Best of all? The backup isn't limited to powering the fridge alone. It can also power your Wi-Fi, a CPAP, lighting, your home office and aquarium within 800W. No matter what you need to keep running during an outage, you have a solution.

A home backup that looks like it belongs

When you picture a generator, do you envision a bulky unit you want to shove out of view? Then you'll be surprised by the FridgeGuard's aesthetic appeal.

Designed with the modern home in mind, the FridgeGuard is the world's thinnest intelligent home backup in its class, measuring just 2.6 inches wide. The silver-gray finish and minimal profile blend seamlessly with stainless-steel refrigerators and other kitchen appliances.

When it comes to placing your FridgeGuard in your kitchen, you have three options: floor placement, wall mounting and placement directly beside the refrigerator. That means you don't have to rearrange your kitchen or compromise on having a beautiful kitchen and staying prepared. Now, you have the flexibility to integrate this power backup into your design, so you can intentionally place it where it works best for you.

But design isn't limited to just aesthetics. FridgeGuard's built-in TFT LCDs show only essential information, and its smart app lets you monitor and schedule power use, including time-of-use control to lower electricity bills. It's this careful balance of fashion and function that has won the FridgeGuard multiple awards, including the iF Design Award 2026 for international design excellence.

Need more power? No problem. You can expand the backup solution's power capacity from 1kWh to 2kWh, and it supports up to 500 W of solar input via an MPPT module, so you can recharge the FridgeGuard even when your house is out of power.

No kitchen is complete without a refrigerator, and no refrigerator is complete without essential power protection. To learn more and protect your refrigerator, your food and you, visit Jackery.com.