I recently came back from a year in Puerto Rico with a similar situation. The utility company didn't do proper maintenance and the electrical system uptime was about 93% every month.
With the grid mostly being up, but not being reliable, the most logical solution was a gas generator to provide power during the outages. All the gas stations had backup generators, so the general operating procedure was to just keep a 5 gallon gas can handy. If the power was out for more than 12 hours, we just went and got more gas. The frequent outages meant that the gas was used often enough that it wouldn't spoil.
I'm moving up to upstate New York soon and my experience in PR has made me wary of multi-day outages during blizzards, so I'll likely replicate the setup.
If I ever live in a place with natural gas lines but worry about power outages, I'll likely get a natural gas generator. Even during power outages, natural gas lines stay pressurized because the gas distribution system burns the gas itself to power the equipment they use to boost the pressure for the system.
With the grid mostly being up, but not being reliable, the most logical solution was a gas generator to provide power during the outages. All the gas stations had backup generators, so the general operating procedure was to just keep a 5 gallon gas can handy. If the power was out for more than 12 hours, we just went and got more gas. The frequent outages meant that the gas was used often enough that it wouldn't spoil.
I'm moving up to upstate New York soon and my experience in PR has made me wary of multi-day outages during blizzards, so I'll likely replicate the setup.
If I ever live in a place with natural gas lines but worry about power outages, I'll likely get a natural gas generator. Even during power outages, natural gas lines stay pressurized because the gas distribution system burns the gas itself to power the equipment they use to boost the pressure for the system.