Retail and food
Anything with a cold chain
Refrigeration, freezers and POS. The cost of an outage is inventory plus the hours you are shut, and both are measurable before you buy anything.
Commercial power
Commercial standby power for Houston businesses.
Single and three-phase standby sets for buildings that lose money the moment the lights go out. Our own electricians, our own permits, and work scheduled around your operating hours rather than ours.
What makes commercial different
The machine is the easy part. The coordination isn’t.
On a house, standby power is one crew and one inspection. On a commercial building it is a load study, a service coordination with the utility, a transfer arrangement that matches how the building is actually used, and an inspection regime that depends on occupancy type.
We do the electrical work ourselves under TECL #31315 and we hold the permit, which means there is one number to call when a schedule slips. Where you already have an electrical contractor, we coordinate with them rather than around them.
Where we work
Buildings where an outage is an operational problem.
Offices
Buildings full of people and data
Lighting, life safety, lifts, comms rooms. Usually a partial-load arrangement rather than the whole building, decided by what has to stay up.
Light industrial
Process that cannot stop mid-cycle
Motor starting is the constraint here, not the running load. Sizing that ignores inrush is the most common fault we find on existing sets.
Multi-site
Several properties, one contractor
Portfolios where standby power was installed piecemeal by whoever was cheapest at the time. We survey what is there and put it on one service schedule.
How a commercial job runs
Survey, load analysis, permit, install, commission.
01
Site survey
Service entrance, switchgear, available space, gas or diesel supply, and what the building must keep running. Nothing is priced before this.
02
Load analysis
Running and starting loads, then the transfer arrangement — whole building or selected panels. You get the reasoning, not just the model number.
03
Permit and utility
Permit pulled in our name, coordination with the utility and with your own electrical contractor if you have one.
04
Install around your hours
Set, gas or fuel, switchgear and transfer equipment. Sequenced so the building keeps trading wherever that is possible.
05
Commissioning
Live transfer test under load, with your maintenance staff present, and the documentation handed over for insurance and warranty.
Service agreements
Standby power you have not tested is an assumption.
Commercial sets sit idle for months and then get asked to carry a building for days. A weekly exercise cycle proves the engine starts. It does not prove the set will take the load, that the batteries will crank in year four, or that the transfer arrangement still does what the drawing says.
Hurricane season runs June to November. We schedule commercial service visits ahead of it rather than during it, and agreement holders get priority dispatch when an outage is regional.
Talk about an agreementIncluded on a commercial visit
Oil, filters and coolant to the manufacturer’s schedule
Battery test under load, not a voltage reading
Full load test with the transfer arrangement exercised
Fuel system and, on diesel, fuel condition
Controller fault history read and cleared
Written report kept on file for warranty and insurance
Tell us what the building does and we’ll tell you what it needs.
Mon–Fri 7:30 to 5:00 from our Houston office, and the on-call tech after hours.