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To: John Bachman who wrote (7950)	3/3/2005 3:15:07 PM
From: Casaubon	Respond to of 8393

exactly.

To: John Bachman who wrote (7950)	3/3/2005 9:54:17 PM
From: Stevefoder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8393

Re"However, standard operating procedures call for testing any line to verify that it is dead, not just assuming that it is." It is more complicated than that. The line can be dead and then people start working on it. But the house was off line and now the the house with the generator starts to generate. Now someone gets killed on what was a dead line. Distributed generation systems (eg. house generators) must somehow be taken off the system automatically and kept off while the main system is down. This fact increases the cost of generation at a house and feeding that power onto the system when the house has excess capacity. That does not mean home generation a bad idea, it just means it has some problems and extra costs.