Florida Power and Light: Regulations for home solar installations

Re:Florida Power and Light: Regulations for home solar insta... by post_break on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @09:58AM (#15284632)

My gf's parents have this. They can back feed into the house by disconnecting the power lines. From what I understand the utility companies still do not like working on lines when they hear generators because some people do not isolate and can back feed into the grid somehow. At least that's what I've been told.

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Re:Florida Power and Light: Regulations for home solar insta... by ams6110 on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @10:28AM (#15284890)

Some people do stupid things like plugging a generator into a wall socket to feed the house without a transfer switch. I would be wary too if I were a utility worker.

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Re:Florida Power and Light: Regulations for home solar insta... by CamperBob2 on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @10:38AM (#15285015)

As an aside, I find it hard to believe those people work on lines without shorting them out. That would be like cleaning a gun without unloading it first. I'd need to see some actual statistics on electrocution hazards due to backfeed before I sign on to this particular moral panic.

Frankly, I don't think the utilities consider backfeed to be as dangerous to their workers as it is to their business models. It's not in their financial interest to compete with their own customers.

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