09-10-2016, 01:54 PM
Customer Self Supply (CSS) is on the Hawaiian Electric site, so if anybody is telling you otherwise at HELCO, it is bull. It does not require battery storage, although this would be easy with a rack of 4 marine batteries outside. If you open your main breaker and have your solar panel system acting as as a solar power generator, then it is just the same as having a gas engine generator. You only need a breaker from your solar power to disconnect it when the utility power is used. There are gas engine generators all over, and this is what they are doing, although the reason is the utility power has gone out. You have the right to open your main breaker, in fact, they make a big deal out of how that is your property.
https://www.hawaiianelectric.com/clean-e...y-programs
*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*
https://www.hawaiianelectric.com/clean-e...y-programs
*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*
*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*