California Commercial Generator Sales, Rental, Maintenance & Service
CD & Power sells, rents, installs, maintains and services backup generators across the Bay Area & Northern California. Offices in Martinez and Sacramento.
Figure on a time line of one year. That’s right, one year. Maybe more.
We’re approaching mid-August. It may be tempting to think that you could order a new stationary generator and swap it in before the end of this year’s fire season. Maybe you had set a goal to have a new generator in place before the end of 2019. Well, that’s not likely to happen. In fact, getting it installed before NEXT fall will take immediate action. Here’s why.
Recently PG&E provided additional details about its fire safety plan for 2019. An important factor — expect more and broader blackouts this summer and fall. The announcement lays out the expansion of the Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) program.
More details available on the PG&E website.
What does this mean for you? Make sure your disaster preparedness plan includes what you will do when there is an unplanned outage. A few resources and tips to help:
If you have questions about preparing for power outages that these resources don’t cover, give us a call. We’re here to power your success!
When an outage strikes and your generator kicks in, what will it power?We asked Carlos Navas, Project Manager for generator installations at CD & Power, to help us answer this question. “In short, a generator can be configured to power whatever you want it to power,” Carlos explained. Having also served as an Account Manager, working with dozens of customers around the Bay Area, he was able to relay more of the possibilities you should consider. For one, powering everything may be cost prohibitive, and likely unnecessary. Thinking now about the generator support you will need in the event of a power loss, will optimize your disaster-preparedness plan.
A generator failure can be a full blown, four-alarm emergency for a facility. It can be a nightmare and it is not the time to start dreaming up an emergency, contingency plan.
Without a plan in place there is a tendency to jump at quick but not well-thought-out solutions, like looking at the label on the generator and calling the manufacturer. That’s a call to Georgia, Indiana, Wisconsin or somewhere else in the middle of the country where most generators are manufactured. Do you have a service agreement with a California-based generator maintenance company? Perhaps you contracted with an out-of-state service company instead. What happens after you place that service request could be drastically different depending upon who you call.
In Northern California we are fortunate to live in an expanse of boundless natural beauty. But from time to time Mother Nature reminds us of the essential wildness that stirs within it. Case in point: the recent wildfires in Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino, Butte and Solano Counties.
Shortly after the outbreak of the fires Sunday night, we had people in the field delivering and setting up generators, restoring power to grocery stores, communications providers, wineries and other services affected by the disaster. Our personnel came back with customer stories of the blunt force and breathtaking speed of the wind-driven flames. [Read more…]
Every year millions of people rely on portable generators when they lose access to power. Used safely, a portable generator delivers the power you need, when you need it most.
On Tuesday, September 12, three people died of carbon-monoxide poisoning from a generator that was running inside their Orange County home in Florida, after Hurricane Irma.
Four other members of the family were taken to a Florida Hospital in very serious condition. The cause of this was a generator running inside of the family’s home. Generators, which release carbon monoxide, should never be used indoors, in garages, or any place that is not well-ventilated.
Many companies are unprepared for business disruptions caused by power blackouts and are often unaware of the potential costs and impact on their operations.
While the majority of power failures from national grids last only a few hours, some blackouts can last days or even weeks, completely shutting down production at companies and critical infrastructures such as telecommunication networks, financial services, water supplies and hospitals.
Summertime brings visions of fishing, swimming, golf, picnics and getting away with families and friends. But summer can also bring down upon us the nightmare of power outages, brownouts and other disasters that result from a power grid under severe strain. Your business or facility must have a functioning disaster recovery and contingency power plan in place before disaster strikes.
Key people take vacations. Disasters don’t.
If yours is a well thought out emergency response plan, it puts the right people in charge of its execution. But, those people take vacations. Disasters don’t. And your contingency plan does not get to take a week or two away, either. [Read more…]
According to Mike Halpert of the Federal Climate Protection Center, there is a “95 percent chance of El Nino continuing through the winter, that’s about as confident as you will ever see in a climate forecast.”
There you have it, El Nino is coming and it goes without saying that now would be a good time to start reviewing your emergency procedures for a loss of power. The danger of flooding and power cuts is all too real. “We could see upwards of 200 percent of average rainfall event.” Said Bill Croyle of the California Department of Water Resources.
El Nino aside, there has been a 58% increase in power outages over the last 5 years. Not only that, but a recent study showed that the median cost to a small business for loss of power is upwards of $12,500 per day.
The Small Business Majority and the American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC) published a report that found: [Read more…]
When power is disrupted, how prepared are you?
The power grid can be interrupted by major or minor occurrences, such as
If the power is out for long, delayed response can be very costly. With our experience in the power industry, here are some of the reasons businesses find themselves without adequate power for a substantial amount of time. [Read more…]
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