I am looking into getting panels and a generator for power and back up. I was told something interesting by two f the sales reps and neither had the technical expertise to explain the reasoning for what they said and both agreed that it should be able to be done.

If you have solar panels and the power goes out, even though your solar system has the ability to power your house, it wont. The power your panels generate goes to the grid and the grid will power the house. If I were to get a system like the Tesla Wall, the same applies. Once the batteries exhaust themselves, the solar panels will not charge the batteries. Now, if I add a generator into the mix, the generator will charge the batteries.

The only thing that kind of makes sense is that the generator is AC and the solar panels are DC but, there is an inverter so that seems to indicate that this is possible. Besides, If I live off the grid, I can get solar panels, an inverter and power my house. So whats the deal? Is the power company some how getting their hands in the mix to prevent people from having an efficient system and cutting them out?

Any ideas?

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