Versatility: Portable generators work well for a wider variety of tasks than a dedicated standby generator. In addition to ...

Without fuel, your generator is useless. Our experts recommend checking your main fuel tanks levels once a week if your model ...

Home generators are effective options to power appliances and other electronics during an outage, but it’s important to keep generator safety in mind. Improper use of a portable generator can cause ...

When the power goes out, most people focus on issues such as lack of light and heat. But without power, many modern amenities that enable communication, entertainment, comfort, and more also become ...

As backup power sources become more common in residential construction (Photo 1), many homeowners have learned about the needs and benefits of transfer switches. They know in the event of an electric ...

Q. I have questions about home backup power. Are manual transfer switches available in a range of maximum power to be transferred? Also, do they make automatic transfer switches that operate when no ...

Our pick for the best overall standby generator, the Generac Guardian, is selling on Amazon for less than anywhere else.

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Customers of Portland General Electric are lending their standby generators to the utility for 200 hours a year in a unique distributed generation program. The utility is not buying power from ...

All of the equipment in the server room (8 servers, 5 switches, 2 routers, 3 firewalls, and a couple NAS boxes) is powered by a Smart-UPS 2200XL, and the load indicator on the UPS has never gone over ...