Interesting thing, talking about Gen sets. I now have solar power, BUT it only produces power when attached to the power grid, AKA SDGE. Well in a power outage, no solar either......UNLESS you have a Gen set to power the Solar grid and make it think it is connected to the power grid. works like a champ.
You have the same as ron no batteries right? In Hi I was totally off the grid, solar, wind and the battery bank and a 4k inverter, expensive but well worth the hastle.