Originally Posted by
Powers106
I always thought hotels had backup generators but guess not, or at least not that one.
I would expect a high-rise hotel to have a generator to power life safety systems and elevators, but not much else. A low-rise hotel may have nothing. The percentage of hotels that have backup power to provide full services in guest rooms including air conditioning is as close 0% as you can get.
Originally Posted by
Coffeemadman
Um... absolutely a power company should be refunding any payments for energy made when the power goes out. I'm kind of surprised that even the US doesn't have basic rights like this.
It's not clear what you are suggesting: Power is metered. When the power goes out, the meter doesn't accumulate usage and thus no usage charges. So there aren't "payments for energy made when the power goes out."