| Resource | What it does | Ads / affiliate links |
|---|---|---|
| Outage Runtime Calculator | Tells a reader how long their fridge, CPAP, fans and phones will run on a given battery — with honest hard-stops when a unit cannot carry the load at all. | None |
| Printable one-page checklist | Power, safety, food-safety and decision items on one printable page. Free to reproduce (CC BY 4.0). | None |
| Open equipment dataset | 34 hand-verified products with specs, ballpark price tiers and limitations, re-verified monthly. CSV/JSON, CC BY 4.0. Also on GitHub. | Repo & downloads: none |
| Generator safety rules | The 8 rules, four of them life-safety, sourced from CPSC, CDC and Ready.gov — including the ~8-minute garage CO timeline. | Labeled product links |
| 100 questions, answered with numbers | Fridge hold times, CPAP watt-hours, insulin storage, order-by deadlines — quotable, self-contained answers. | None on that page |
📰 For newsrooms & emergency management
▲ The short version
Free, ready-to-link hurricane power resources for your coverage — no permission needed, no signup walls, and the tools below carry no advertising and no affiliate links. A named Florida source is available for power-outage segments on short notice:[email protected].
Link-ready resources
Story angles we can speak to, with numbers
- "How long will my fridge actually last?" — 4 hours closed (USDA); 14–20 hours on a 1kWh battery; the watt-hour math a viewer can follow.
- The 48-hour order cutoff — the shipping deadline most storm coverage misses, and what is still buyable at 72/48/24 hours out.
- CPAP and medical devices in an outage — one night is 240–480Wh; what that costs and what utilities' medical-essential registries do.
- Generator CO deaths are the preventable part of every storm — ~85/year nationally; the garage-with-the-door-open myth.
- What the budget tier buys vs the mid-range tier — honest tiering without brand hype.
About the source
Hilario Herrera is a Florida-based web developer who builds the runtime math behind this site and publishes every assumption on themethodology page — including what has not been tested. The site is independent, supported by disclosed affiliate commissions, and accepts no manufacturer payment for placement. More on the about page.
Usage terms
The calculator and checklist may be linked or referenced freely. The dataset and checklist content are CC BY 4.0 — reproduce with attribution ("SunGrid Living, sungridliving.com"). Screenshots of any page are fine with credit. We do not require pre-approval for any of it. Email [email protected] for interviews, custom cuts of the data, or an embeddable version of the calculator.