With base building and barricading, electricity in general provides useful functionality. Utilization of electricity for lighting up environment around camp, house interiors or whole public lighting of village, prevention of spoiling raw food and bloodbags in fridges, cooking meals with electric stoves in houses, defense against intruders with electric fences, allowing communication from radio stations or PA systems, recharging vehicle batteries and other possible applications.
DayZ Dev. Board: W.I.P Feature
Confirmed by developers: This feature is currently W.I.P.
Would a Dev mind shedding a bit more light on the subject?
Ohm my God I’m amped!
If some form of generator is going to run off fuel, vehicles should spawn with different amounts of fuel in them and you should be able to extract it for your generator!