Thank goodness for that, Cap.
We have just a generic gas generator. Works great except it's a bit of a gas hog. But then I think they all are. Folks get into this false sense of security with them until they realize in a disaster that they have one and BTW where can I buy gas?
That happened to us once. All the gas stations in the town were closed down due to a bad winter storm. That taught us a lesson about keeping ample gas on hand.
The neighbors with solar have a back up generator to use to charge their batteries in cloudy weather where the solar energy isn't enough to do to job. If we hear it DH usually asks where that motor is that he's hearing run continuously and I just tell him it's the neighbors who are saving money running solar except they are losing money siphoning gas into the generator to charge their batteries.