Going Solar electric - your input please?

[Domeguy]

At the time I went to school, the automatic shut down was built into the inverters. But that was about 10 yrs ago, and a lot has changed since than. But you said when the grid goes down, they still take your power first. But if the grid goes down, your system should shut down and shouldn't be putting any power into the grid, even if the shut off is at the pole. If it does, it called Islanding, and unless it's been pre wired through the fuse panel to keep powering key items like necessary medical equipmentonly, the inverter should shut down if it senses a power failure. So they shouldn't be able to take your power if none is generated. That was my point, or am I missing something?