Who Provides Commercial Generator Service in the Bay Area for Gillette, Blue Star, and Rehlko? (One Independent Team, Every Major Brand)

If your facility runs more than one brand of commercial generator, you already know the headache: the company that sold you your Blue Star unit may not touch your Gillette, and the dealer who commissioned your Rehlko system might not want anything to do with either. So who actually provides commercial generator service in the Bay Area that facility teams can rely on when the fleet is mixed? For operations and facilities managers across Northern California, the answer is an independent service partner that services every major industrial brand under one roof: CD & Power.

Single-brand dealers have a built-in blind spot. They sell one line, they train on one line, and they service one line. That works until your site runs a Gillette in the main plant room, a Blue Star at the pump station, and a MultiQuip trailer-mounted transportable unit backing up a remote operation. Suddenly you’re coordinating three vendors, three service schedules, and three sets of after-hours numbers. This post explains who covers the full brand spread across commercial and industrial equipment in the Bay Area, what independent, engine-level service actually means, and why one partner beats a stack of dealer contracts.

Who Provides Commercial Generator Service in the Bay Area?

CD & Power services Gillette, Blue Star, and Rehlko (formerly Kohler) commercial generators, along with MultiQuip and Airman trailer-mounted transportable units and the other major industrial generator and engine brands, from its Bay Area corporate office in Martinez and branches in Sacramento and Reno, Nevada. As an independent service company, we aren’t locked to a single manufacturer’s product line. We diagnose, maintain, repair, and load-bank test the commercial and industrial equipment you already own, whoever built it.

That independence is the whole point. A dealer’s service department exists to support the dealer’s sales. Our service department exists to keep your power on. When you’re not tied to one brand, you can put the right certified technician on the right machine without asking whether it counts as one of ours. For a facility manager running a mixed industrial fleet, that’s the difference between one relationship and four.

The Brand Coverage: What CD & Power Actually Services

Here’s the practical breakdown. If your commercial or industrial generator, or the engine inside it, appears below, one call reaches a team that can service it.

• Gillette Generators: full service, maintenance, and repair for Gillette’s American-made commercial and industrial units, which run from roughly 25 kW to 1,000 kW on diesel, natural gas, and LP.
• MultiQuip and Airman trailer-mounted transportable generators: diagnostics, preventive maintenance, and emergency repair for towable and portable units common on job sites, events, and temporary power applications.
• Blue Star Power Systems: service across Blue Star’s commercial and industrial range, spanning diesel, natural gas, and propane units from about 20 kW to 2,000 kW.
• Rehlko (formerly Kohler): service for Rehlko commercial and industrial power systems, the standby line that carried the Kohler name before the 2024 rebrand. Whether you own an older Kohler unit or a current Rehlko system, the underlying platform is one we know well.
• Other major brands: Cummins, CAT, and the rest of the commercial and industrial market. Four decades in the field means we’ve worked on nearly everything sold into Northern California facilities.

Notice the pattern. Coverage isn’t a badge on a website. It’s engine-level competency across the diesel and natural-gas platforms that power commercial generators. Gillette, Blue Star, and Rehlko units are built on a shared set of industrial engines from makers like John Deere, Volvo, and others, so our technicians service those platforms directly, whether that’s a Perkins parts and service need, Deutz engine service, or the Kohler engine heritage behind a Rehlko unit. When a technician understands the engine underneath the enclosure, brand-badge differences stop being a barrier to good service.

What Independent, Engine-Level Service Means for Your Parts and Diagnostics

Independent doesn’t mean improvising. It means we can service any brand while sourcing the right components for each one. CD & Power does not warehouse a wall of parts. Instead, we source and obtain the correct part for your specific make and model through established manufacturer relationships, and drop-ship it when speed matters. The advantage of covering many brands is breadth: we know where to obtain a Gillette control component, a Blue Star transfer switch part, or a genuine Rehlko replacement, and we know how fast each supply channel moves.

On the compliance-sensitive side, we’re honest about parts. For emissions-critical or safety-critical components, we recommend genuine OEM parts, because that’s what keeps your unit inside its certification. We won’t tell you an aftermarket substitute is automatically equivalent when your inspection depends on the answer. That honesty is part of why facilities stay with us across brands and across years.

Diagnostics work the same way. Our certified technicians read the engine and the control system, not just the brand sticker. A no-start on a MultiQuip unit and a no-start on a Blue Star have overlapping root causes: fuel, batteries, controls, and load. Experience across brands makes each individual diagnosis faster, because our people have seen the failure mode before, on more than one platform.

Why One Multi-Brand Partner Beats Juggling Single-Brand Dealers

Every vendor you add is another point of coordination and another chance for a gap. With single-brand dealers, a three-brand fleet means three preventive maintenance schedules to track, three invoicing systems, and three after-hours lines that may or may not answer at 2 a.m. When something fails, you’re the one figuring out whose problem it is.

Consolidating to one multi-brand partner collapses that overhead. One generator service team handles the whole fleet: one maintenance calendar, one point of contact, one number to call in an emergency. This is the heart of how we work. Sales, installation, rentals, repairs, maintenance, and compliance all come from one trusted partner, so one call handles everything with no runaround.

It also removes the finger-pointing. When the same team maintains every unit, there’s no argument about whether the transfer switch or the generator caused the outage. We own the outcome across the whole system, which is exactly what you want when downtime is measured in lost production, missed procedures, or spoiled inventory.

Local Proof: A 40-Year Bay Area Team Behind Every Brand

Independence only helps if the team behind it is genuinely capable, and this is where four decades of Northern California work matter. CD & Power has serviced generators since 1985 from our corporate office at 150 Nardi Lane in Martinez, with additional branches in Sacramento and Reno, Nevada. That footprint covers Northern California and Western Nevada with technicians who know the region’s regulatory landscape, from California Air Resources Board (CARB) rules for emergency backup generators to local air-district permitting.

We’re a Certified Woman-Owned Business, a Licensed General Engineer (#757162, A, C-10), and we’ve been named to the Bay Area Best Places to Work list for 11-plus consecutive years. When you call, a human answers, not an automated menu. For emergency service and repair, our 24/7 line is staffed around the clock. That combination of brand breadth, local knowledge, and genuine availability is hard to find in a dealer whose service department only opens when the sales floor does.

You can read more about the full scope of our capabilities, from sales and rentals to service and compliance, and how one team supports your equipment across its entire life.

When to Call a Multi-Brand Generator Service Team

You don’t have to wait for a failure to consolidate service. The most common reasons Bay Area facilities call us for multi-brand coverage:

• Preventive maintenance contracts: put your whole mixed fleet on one PM schedule. Consistent generator maintenance catches the small failures before they become 2 a.m. emergencies.
• Emergency repair: one 24/7 number for every brand you own, so you’re never left deciding which dealer to try first during an outage.
• Load bank testing: verify that each generator, regardless of brand, actually carries its rated load under real conditions.
• Compliance-driven service: CARB and air-district requirements apply to the engine, not the brand. We keep every unit inspection-ready.

If your facility runs mixed-brand industrial equipment, or you bought from a dealer who only services its own line, that’s exactly the situation independent service was built for.

One Team, Every Major Brand

Mixed-brand commercial fleets don’t need a stack of dealer contracts. They need one partner who services every unit, sources the right parts, and answers the phone when it matters. That’s what independent, multi-brand commercial generator service in the Bay Area looks like for Gillette, Blue Star, and Rehlko owners, plus MultiQuip and Airman transportable units, across Northern California, delivered by a 40-year local team. Talk to a technician today, not a call center. Call (925) 229-2700, or reach us 24/7 at (866) 468-7697. One team services every major brand.