Hey, Where i live there was a power outage.

[Seret]

What country has that for regulations? I don't think I ever heard of that stupidity before.

I'm in the UK, but I suspect the issue is pretty widespread, if only because all the grid-tie inverters seem to include anti-islanding as a feature.

[Brethern]

I'm in the UK, but I suspect the issue is pretty widespread, if only because all the grid-tie inverters seem to include anti-islanding as a feature.

Not really, I know that In Canada and the US you're allowed to operate independent power supplies even when the main power is out.

You only require a second breaker panel and a master switch to cut your house off from the grid.

[kola2DONO]

Well as a smaller child, i once experienced power outage because of a dumb truck driver cutting the power lines with his truck.

(He drove twice the speed limit into a power line, i am just glad the poles didn't fall down)

[The Destroyer]

Last night we had a 1.5 hour power outage in southern alberta. No idea why.

[rpayne88]

I lost power during Hurricanes Irene and Sandy for all of about two seconds.

[Motokid600]

All this talk about power outages.. And none of you looked up at the sky? ( saying it was a nighttime city wide outage )

[The Destroyer]

All this talk about power outages.. And none of you looked up at the sky? ( saying it was a nighttime city wide outage )

Of course I did. But I live in a small town so it usually is easy to see the stars... but damn, that moon was bright!

[Elthy]

We rarely have power outages here in germany, perhaps every 5 years when someone cuts a cable with an excavator or a lightning strikes an important thing in the grid... Sadly im not able to see the stars since it either happens during daytime or a thunderstorm.