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.
Many facilities across Northern California cannot afford to lose power during a planned or unplanned outage. It is critical to understand the legal and operational risks that face your organization and create an emergency power plan that addresses them.
In the posts below, we share some of the insights we have gained in our 35+ years. You may want to begin with 5 Reasons Emergency Preparedness is More Important Than Ever. You may also find our Resources page to be useful. If you are ready to discuss your emergency power needs with one of our experts, contact us to schedule a conversation.
Like so many other businesses in our area, we are eager to support our customers, employees, and community at large as much as possible during this crisis.
Our creative equipment supplier gave us an idea recently that we’re eager to make a reality. As drive-thru virus testing tents are set up, they will need power.
The portable solar generators we just announced last month are the perfect fit for this type of use.
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If you live in Northern California, you are likely more familiar with what happens during a power outage than you ever wanted to be. If you have used temporary, portable generators to restore power to your facility in the past, then you are aware that there is more to it than getting a generator on site and starting it up.
If you anticipate renting a portable generator in the future, there are steps you can take to:
As we reflect on the fire season of 2019, it’s clear that the public safety power shutoff events only made it that much more important to prepare for next year. The preventative shutoff events dramatically extend the impact of fire season across a much larger population – hitting urban and suburban populations far from actual fires or expected fire risks.
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.
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