Natural Gas Generator Conversion

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claims of losing 20% of "power" puts me on hold

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The loss of power is inherent in the difference between gasoline, natural gas and propane. Gasoline has more btu's per gallon of fuel than natural gas or propane. However, the natural gas conversion will allow the engine to burn cleaner and will eliminate refueling. If you need more generator power, unfortunately you will need a larger generator.

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Good luck until everyone fires up their gen set you will not have enough gas volume to work so your SOL.

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Thought about that also, which almost made me bury a propane tank in the yard. After thinking about it, we took a direct hit for Ida and went without power for 14 days, which is a reasonable worst case scenario. I live down a street of 42 houses and 75% of them have NG whole home generators, and no one missed a beat.

End of the day if the NG grid is too stressed, we have money set aside in our emergency fund to purchase a decently large propane tank to handle the job. That said, I could purchase several 100 pound tanks and still not come remotely close to the price of a comparable diesel unit.

That I would do is get propane tank

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Good luck until everyone fires up their gen set you will not have enough gas volume to work

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This is indeed a possibility, but some utility companies are aware of the problem and working to run larger lines to account for the increased demand.

Entergy crew is in my neighborhood as I type - one line installed, my street is next .