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If the grid goes down here, the panels quit also. They have to have a bit of power to enable them. A friend of mine has a two-battery Tesla Powerwall. I think it has a 20+ kW capacity, & the cost was $26K+. It didn't pencil out for me either, so for the time being I'll get along with my generator powering certain circuits during outages.
We have a "net metering" program here that credits us for the extra power we feed into the grid. I'm on the original program. The follow on programs are less advantageous, & the power company continually tries to whittle down on the metering program advantages for solar and continually lobbies the state power commission for new fees and costs to be born by those who have solar. They were originally gung ho about solar until they realized it cut into their profits. Now it's a continuous assault.
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Marv Evans
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