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Connecting a Generator to a house following an emergency
Hi All, After reading an artical in the March 2023 Electrolink and the release of a Worksafe guide on “Connecting a generator to the wiring of a house or building following an emergency” . I’m not sure if we should be connecting temporary generation to supply areas of network affected by an outage.
I’d appreciate some other points of view on the connection of temporary generators to the electricity network.
Thanks Jacko
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2 Replies
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We don’t connect generation as a rule into houses but have into cowsheds
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Hi
We don’t as a rule either – that way it is up to the owner of the installation to deploy, correctly connect, safely position, re-fuel, disconnect, remove from site, etc. We don’t want to be accountable, and believe our workers efforts are better focused on network restoration.
It does help if you have 1MW portable generators (like a few of the EBD’s down here) which can inject into the HV Network if there is lots of critical infrastructure that needs energising (like a small town).
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