XZaapryca HAve you ever installed solar? and I dont mean just once. Not everyone has to have both battery and generator backup, no one said anything about taking the grid apart, the grid is you backup.

what you need for a solar system
panels
disconnect switches
grid tie inverter
combiner box (optional)

WOW do you see batteries in there?, or generators?
NO you dont, because the grid is your battery, and you dont need to knock the snow off it if you have a DE-ICER put on it.

YOU, as anyone can plaing see, are not the expert you with, and maybe you should have asked someone who really does know, and you shouldnt be talking as if you do know.

Amature

Anyone who says not to do this for any reason is a moron. Of course not all of the panels would be in one place, they would be on every build (specially commercial flat roofs) This spreads the infrastructure out to a redundant system far safe than what we have right now, and it would be backedup by generation that could support a minimal of needed grids. As far as the cost goes, someone slap these people, please, panels have a 25yr life, and even without rebates etc. they have a 10-12 yrs payout, compared to oil generators, so you mean to tell me that getting 15 yrs of power for FREE compared to the amount you now pay is somehow expensive? FOOLS. The trick is to make the companies sell them for a fair and reasonable amount, not the extorted price that it is now. ANYONE WHO ISNT DOING THIS IS THE PROBLEM WITH THE WORLD!! If you are the type coming up with BS reasons not to do this YOU ARE THE PROBLEM, I dont care if you just buy 1 panel a month or every other month and are hooking it up then you are becoming the solution. If you can't afford it, them stop doing something like paying for tv, and save your money.

Yes I did stop watching tv, and yes I do have solar, I have enough power for the REST OF MY LIFE, can you say that?