diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/ups.nix b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/ups.nix
index c9dda8a8c093..63afb5deb5bd 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/ups.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/ups.nix
@@ -590,6 +590,7 @@ in
       "d /var/lib/nut 700"
     ];
 
+    services.udev.packages = [ pkgs.nut ];
 
 /*
     users.users.nut =
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/nut/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/nut/default.nix
index 5596fc6010ec..2f3be342a7a8 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/nut/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/nut/default.nix
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 , substituteAll
 , systemd
 , udev
+, gnused
 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
@@ -30,6 +31,13 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   };
 
   patches = [
+    # This patch injects a default value for NUT_CONFPATH into the nutshutdown script
+    # since the way we build the package results in the binaries being hardcoded to check
+    # $out/etc/ups.conf instead of /etc/nut/ups.conf (where the module places the file).
+    # We also cannot use `--sysconfdir=/etc/nut` since that results in the install phase
+    # trying to install directly into /etc/nut which predictably fails
+    ./nutshutdown-conf-default.patch
+
     (substituteAll {
       src = ./hardcode-paths.patch;
       avahi = "${avahi}/lib";
@@ -63,16 +71,23 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   postInstall = ''
     substituteInPlace $out/lib/systemd/system-shutdown/nutshutdown \
+      --replace /bin/sed "${gnused}/bin/sed" \
       --replace /bin/sleep "${coreutils}/bin/sleep" \
       --replace /bin/systemctl "${systemd}/bin/systemctl"
 
     for file in system/{nut-monitor.service,nut-driver-enumerator.service,nut-server.service,nut-driver@.service} system-shutdown/nutshutdown; do
-    substituteInPlace $out/lib/systemd/$file \
-      --replace "$out/etc/nut.conf" "/etc/nut.conf"
+      substituteInPlace $out/lib/systemd/$file \
+        --replace "$out/etc/nut.conf" "/etc/nut/nut.conf"
     done
 
+    substituteInPlace $out/lib/systemd/system/nut-driver-enumerator.path \
+      --replace "$out/etc/ups.conf" "/etc/nut/ups.conf"
+
     # we don't need init.d scripts
     rm -r $out/share/solaris-init
+
+    # Suspicious/overly broad rule, remove it until we know better
+    rm $out/etc/udev/rules.d/52-nut-ipmipsu.rules
   '';
 
   meta = with lib; {
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/nut/nutshutdown-conf-default.patch b/pkgs/applications/misc/nut/nutshutdown-conf-default.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..28e5a286126d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/nut/nutshutdown-conf-default.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+diff --git a/scripts/systemd/nutshutdown.in b/scripts/systemd/nutshutdown.in
+index ace2485b3..9dee869bb 100755
+--- a/scripts/systemd/nutshutdown.in
++++ b/scripts/systemd/nutshutdown.in
+@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
+ #!/bin/sh
++export NUT_CONFPATH="${NUT_CONFPATH-/etc/nut}"
+ 
+ # This script requires both nut-server (drivers)
+ # and nut-client (upsmon) to be present locally