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If you have an electric generator what do you have to do to supply electricity to the grid?
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∙ 13y ago
It will depend very much on your local supply company. You will be supplying to the local system at your house voltage (unless you are going in for a fully commercial supply) so you are not going straight to the grid in any case. The local company would certainly want to know what you are doing, for safety reasons. Suppose they had isolated your house supply for work, and you connected your generator at that time, you would make the house supply live again and endanger workers on the lines, so you have to be controlled.
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