"We actually have a whole market of private large generators owners that sell you electricity to mitigate this."

Do they use the existing municipal infrastructure or do they need to lay new cables ???.

We have rotational 2 hourly load shedding on bad days here in South Africa as our state owned power company has no spare capacity and the power stations are old so they tend to break down often.

Our local FTH internet provider discovered the first time that happened after fiber rollout in our area when all their ONT's went online at the same time asking for authentication.

It was clear they never planned for this.