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You would use a standby generator as a back up electricity source when there are outages of electric power. Business such as factories and also offices would have a standby generator in place.

On a standby generator 100 percent of the power drops before the generator will start.

A light can operate from stand by power of a generator.

According to my knowledge generators do consume power while in the standby. A backup generator is only allowed to operate continuously for up to 200hrs.