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.

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Are You In or Are You Out? Air Quality Compliance is a Priority of CD & Power and Our Customers!

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air quality compliance ImageDid you know that we are our own customer? Because we have an extensive fleet of portable generators available to rent, our technicians can get pretty busy installing, servicing, and fueling our own equipment. In 2017 things were extra hectic because we brought on 12 (yes TWELVE) new portable generators ranging from 50KW to 1MW. We spent $1,000,000 on these generators– one of the biggest investments our company made in 2017.

Why Buy New Portable Generators?

So why did we do it? While expanding our fleet allows us to support more customers right now (let us know what you may need!), we’re also positioning our fleet for air quality compliance with state and local regulations that phase in over the coming few years. We are anticipating retiring older generators as these new air quality requirements come into effect.

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Why It’s Important to Use a California-Based Generator Maintenance Company

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California CompanyA 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.

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Arc Flash Danger and How to Protect Your Workers

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Arc flash dangerArc flash, also known as flashover or arc fault, is a risk for any workplace that has energized equipment. This uncontrolled electrical discharge can cause serious injury or even death for any workers in the vicinity. Read on to learn more about arc flash danger around generators and how to protect your workers.

What Is Arc Flash?

All electrical equipment is designed so electricity will follow a particular path. But sometimes, that electricity follows an unexpected path. It may jump to another conductor, or it may move to ground. An incident like this is called an arc flash.

An arc flash’s massive electrical discharge can create a dramatic and rapid increase in temperature, as much as 35,000 degrees Fahrenheit. That can create fires and serious burns in workers, with non- fire-resistant clothing melting onto skin.

When the discharge is serious enough to vaporize the conductors, arc flash can create a supersonic shockwave called an arc blast. This explosion can be as loud as a gunshot (140 dB), with pressure upward of 2,000 pounds per square foot. This blast can send objects flying, including molten metal created by the initial arc flash. As you might imagine, arc flash can cause serious injury or death, and a worker in an arc flash accident may never fully regain her quality of life.

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Celebrating 11 Years of Generator Maintenance and Sales in Sacramento

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Generator Maintenance and Sales Sacramento, CAEleven years ago we were proud to rank as the leading independent, industrial generator maintenance company in the Bay Area. As such, we secured business with some of the most prestigious organizations around, including retail chains and telecommunications companies, all voracious users of power and consequently, back-up power.

Many of these companies operate in other locations throughout California. Exploring potential for new growth, we targeted the Sacramento area. Opening a CD & Power satellite operation there became the next logical step. It carved out for us a beachhead to both expand our support of existing customers as well as to capture a share of the emerging commercial and municipal business developing in the Capital district and along the 80/680 corridor.

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CD & Power: a Bay Area Top Woman-Owned Company

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CD & Power owners Donald Uischner, Jannett Uischner and Jill Collaro

 

You might expect to find a large number of women-owned businesses in the Bay Area. The San Francisco Business Times reports there are over 192,000 of them. What you might not expect to find is the Bay Area’s largest independent player in the industrial generator service industry among them. In the Business Times annual listing of the women-owned companies, CD & Power, Northern California’s largest, independent generator service company, muscled its way into the top 100 woman-owned businesses for the second year in a row.

Thirty years ago Chuck Uischner launched the company out of a single bay in Arnold Industrial Park in Martinez, California. Today, it continues to thrive as a family-owned business with Chuck’s daughter, Jill Collaro as President and his son, Don Uischner as Vice President.

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Backup Power Lessons Learned from Wildfires

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Prepare for disaster with this generator checklistIn 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…]

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Meet Jeff Zimmerman – Central Valley Generator Technician

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Jeff Zimmerman Central Valley Generator TechnicianMany of our clients like to get to know the people they talk with on the phone or who travel to their site to service their generators. We wanted to make that a little easier for our generator service customers in Central Valley California towns like Modesto, Stockton, and Fresno. Meet Jeff Zimmerman.

Jeff was born to work at CD & Power. Well, nearly. We pulled him into the “family” when he was still a teenager. Now, about a dozen years later, he is one of our most experienced generator technicians, working on generator brands like Kohler, Taylor and Cummins/Onan.    [Read more…]

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The Dangers of Operating a Generator Indoors

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Protect Yourself from Carbon Monoxide 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.

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Tier 0 Engines in California Must Be Completely Retired

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Tier O Engines Must Be RetiredIt’s not new news, but it is important. As outlined in the California Air Resources Board Airborne Toxic Control Measure (ATCM), portable tier 0 diesel engines rated at 50 bhp or greater were to be completely removed from service as of January 1st 2017. We’ve all known this was coming as it’s already been over 7 years (time flies) since the same category of engine was relegated to only low-use, emergency application.

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Impact of Hurricane Recovery on Parts & Service Availability

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Just like you, we have been watching the unfolding emergencies caused by Irma and Harvey and the wildfires in Oregon and Montana. Luckily, we are in a position to help so are providing generators as requested to support impacted areas. Rest assured that our relief commitments have not inhibited our ability to supply generators to our Northern California customers.

To handle an overall increase in service requests our staff members are working overtime. We will get to each request, but our turnaround time may be a little longer than usual. If your need is urgent, please indicate so and feel free to follow up with us so we are alerted to your inquiry.

Due to supply interruptions caused by these events, we are experiencing a slowdown in parts delivery. Please be aware that equipment delivery for newly-purchased generators may also be delayed due to manufacturing issues and equipment being diverted to other parts of the country.

If you have any questions or concerns, please call (925) 229-2700 or (916) 564-2622 to discuss with one of our staff members.

Warm regards,

Jill Collaro and Don Uischner
Owners, CD & Power

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(925) 229-2700

150 Nardi Lane
Martinez, CA 94553

Hours: 8:00am to 4:30pm 

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(916) 564-2622

4372 Pinell Street
Sacramento, CA 95838

Hours: 8:00 am to 4:30 pm

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