re: Home Standby Generators

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They say the cost is about $70-$100 per day to run;

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I guess it beats the price of a week long hotel stay.

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Yea, no fricking way it's $70 - 100/day to run a standby natural-gas generator, especially with natural gas prices right now.

Mine is a Briggs & Stratton 18kW, powered by a 993cc Briggs & Stratton Vanguard engine. At 50% load, the engine is rated to burn 187 cubic feet of natural gas per hour. Based on my last bill, Entergy is charging me $0.36452 per every 100 cubic feet of natural gas I use.

Of course, there are a ton of variables that would contribute to the burn rate, but let's just use those numbers as a basis:

187 cf /hr x 24 hr/day x $0.36452/100 cf = $16.36/day