It goes without saying that without fuel, an Emergency Power Generator is like a light bulb without power. If there is no energy in the light bulb, it doesn’t generate any light. It WILL NOT generate any electricity if the generator has no power. That’s elementary, I realise. However, when a person is facing an ice storm or a power outage and they are just about out of gas, it becomes a serious problem. When there is no access to gas stations, the situation becomes serious. What now? In real time, this is precisely what individuals face.Have a look at Long Island Emergency Power for more info on this.
Numerous individuals with emergency power generators ran out of fuel during the ice storm that blanketed the eastern part of the nation in 2009. The key explanation why? They didn’t know the rules for fuel storage.
This is a general rule, guideline or rule of thumb, to be clear, that we use to cover most situations. There is a five-gallon allowance for the regular emergency power generator. Let’s do some math based on that number, which I hate, by the way. For a generator, the average consumption rate hovers around 0.67 gallons per hour. That means a five-gallon tank will give you approximately a little more than five hours of fuel.
The question is How many hours do you plan to operate your emergency power generator before needing to refuel?” To address that question, we have to take into account variables such as bad weather, closed gas stations, closed fuel gas stations, closed highways, immobile vehicles due to weather, etc. There’s no way we can tell how long either of those factors will last or how long the group will be affected. Looking at previous history and coming up with a rule of thumb is what we should do. That being said, in addition to the five gallons currently in your emergency power generator, we think keeping a thirty-two-gallon supply of gas is a perfect rule of thumb to obey.