Definition of "islanding" [islanding]

• Present participle of island. (verb)
• The condition of a distributed generation (DG) generator continuing to power a location even though power from the electric utility is no longer present. (noun)

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• "Faster than most humans could respond, power grids across the region began "islanding" themselves, disconnecting automatically from the overloaded system."
• "The isolation of a PV source is called "islanding," and the goal is to control when islanding should occur."
• "I went off on a summer trip about a week later, up to a remote island off the coast of Washington State, and while happily islanding without a thought to the technical world left behind, got a phone call."