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Originally Posted by puffnstuff
I have a question, not solar or heat pump related. It came up in conversation about the Ford truck commercial that shows a power outage so they hook their electric truck up to the house to power lights etc
Somebody said the rest of the neighbourhood would also be able to pull power from that truck. True or false? Or does it depend on what kind of power meter the home has, as in one able to sell/put self generated electricity back to the grid
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Here in Calgary in the event of a power outage those of us with solar get shut down too. They don’t allow what is called “islanding” as that could cause us to be putting live current into a line they may be trying to repair. If you have battery backups those would kick in I believe. So my guess is in the electric truck scenario the truck would act as a battery, and no power would be going out to the rest of the grid for neighbours to pull from.