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Originally Posted by Dan9871
Don't knowFL but about but above ground was legal in MA. With all the farm land in FL it seems like they would legal here too.
The tank is inexpensive if you get a propane contract from a dealer. They actually track power outages and know when to refill your tank just like an oil dealer watches degree days and knows when to refill you oil tank.
You do need permits but it's no big deal the generator installers have that all figured out.
Running an AC, probably the biggest thing in FL, is no problem even for a smaller generator. Winter here is so mild that I doubt you would need a very large generator for emergency heat which you could leave off the generator.
An electric stove is a real problem that could push you into 22KW or greater but you can always leave that off the generator. It's pretty easy to go through even a week long outage without the electric stove. A microwave and toaster oven can easily fill in.
So, at least at first glance, 8K seems like a reasonable estimate for an all electric home in Florida.
Actually when we had our generac in MA the thing that pushed the generator as big as it was (14KW) was our oil furnace, not our AC or well pump. An oil furnace has a big startup current and the 14KW was the smallest Generac that could handle it. Otherwise we could have had a smaller one.
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Sumter County & The Villages require an underground tank in TV. I had a 17KW generator in NC. We have a 22KW generator here. It truly is sized to be a whole house generator. The size of the generator you need will be determined by the size of your home, what is powered in your home, and what you want to use when you lose power from the grid.
That is a simplification, but you can go to Generac’s website, feed all the information about all those things you want to power into a formula, and it will tell you what size generator you need.
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