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[Joe]

The problem you will have is there will be a lot hanging off the grid once every thing goes down. For example the wee old guy at number 45 who left his 2kw heater on etc etc.
If you expect to get the Grid back up then it's going to be very difficult but if you have a village with a 11kv line feeding it and 3 miles up the road you just happen to have a windfarm then it's not impossible to open the main breaker feeding the general area and have the power from the windfarm supplying only the village.
It's an interesting subject, although I'm an engineer and deal with power systems it's not exactly my field but it's something I am trying to get up to speed on because if we do end up with a very long term event or even teotwawki then it's worth looking at possible ways to restore some systems.
I doubt we have much chance of bring a large gas or coal power station back online but we might have a chance with a few windmills.