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Message: <blockquote data-quote="-Pjackso" data-source="post: 4023737" data-attributes="member: 8119">The micro inverter approach is a good 80% plan.  Each panel & micro inverter acts independently from the other panels.  This is good if you have any shade on any of the panels.  The individual shaded panels loose production, but the adjacent panels (full sun) still operate at full capacity.The micro-inverters will first check to see if there is grid AC power before putting the solar power into the electrical system.  During a power outage there is no grid AC power, so the micro inverters will turn off - to avoid back-feeding into the grid.Power outage work-around:Just like adding a gas-generator to power your house - Turn off the main breaker (disconnect from the grid),  add the gas-generator, and once the gas-generator applies AC power to the house, the micro-inverters will see AC power and turn back on for more KW capacity (generator + solar)....If you don't want to mess with a gas generator, I wonder if a Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) battery-backup unit would provide enough AC power to turn on the micro-inverters.  Not sure....</blockquote>