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Alvaro Melgar Merenciano

Founder and editor · WattBackup

Alvaro Melgar Merenciano is the founder and editor of WattBackup. He is not a licensed electrician, and nothing published here is a substitute for one. What he does instead is unglamorous and checkable: every wattage, runtime and cost figure on this site is traced back to a primary source, the appliance EnergyGuide label, the manufacturer specification sheet, EIA residential electricity prices or the Ofgem price cap, and cited with the date it was consulted. Where no reliable source exists, the article says so rather than filling the cell with a number. He started WattBackup because that verification step is the one thing a manufacturer blog will never do.

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Every article on WattBackup is published under this name. That is deliberate: a site that tells you which generator to buy should tell you who is answerable when the figure is wrong.

Articles here are drafted with AI assistance and every number in them is checked against a primary source by a person before publication. Both halves of that sentence are stated openly in the editorial policy, along with what counts as an admissible source and what happens when a correction is needed.

Alvaro is not a licensed electrician, and nothing published on this site substitutes for one. WattBackup explains what equipment exists, what it costs and which code applies, then refers you to a professional. That boundary is set out in the terms of use.

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