Off Grid / Islanding Systems

It's important to note that islanding does not imply that your home has gone off-grid; nearly always, even after putting solar and storage on your property, your home will continue to be linked to the rest of the electrical grid. This enables you to take advantage of net metering regulations and to keep using the grid at night when your solar panels aren't generating. 

However, you must ensure that the battery you are installing has islanding capabilities if you're considering in investing in solar or solar plus storage since you want to be able to keep your home powered even in the case of a grid outage. 

When your solar panels generate energy, they don't simply supply power to your house; they also feed any extra power back into the grid. Line workers, whose responsibility it is to work with transmission and distribution lines during an outage, are put in a risky scenario as a result of this. The effects might be disastrous if they start repairing the electrical grid under the assumption that there isn't any power going through the lines yet local solar panel installations are still supplying electricity to the grid. 

Islanding enables the best of both worlds. On the one hand, it enables you to keep using locally produced solar production to power your home even in the case of a grid failure. An islanded system, on the other hand, doesn't run the risk of overloading the grid, making it safe for utility staff to work to resume regular service.