The best portable generators and power stations offer a practical backup for outages big and small, keeping critical devices ...

Power outages cost U.S. businesses $150 billion annually, disrupting operations, damaging equipment, and causing lost revenue. For homeowners, outages can mean spoiled food, unsafe conditions, and ...

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Generators can certainly get the job done, but there are some downsides. Appliance experts are pushing homeowners to upgrade ...

An at-home generator is a back-up system installed outside of your house. It serves to protect your home and family from a power failure by turning on automatically if the grid is compromised by ...

Q: I plan to install a backup generator for power outages. How do I determine what size I need? Would it make economic sense to just use one all the time? A: Smaller portable or large whole-house ...

A home standby generator is a luxury, and for some people a necessity. Also known as whole-house generators or stationary generators, these units cost about $2,000 to $5,000. And the professional ...

While enduring an epic flight delay at a New York City airport yesterday, I read a short commentary by the Pulitzer-prize winning author Anna Quindlen about the benefits of backup power generators. In ...

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Three years ago, Dennis Quinn, president of what was then Seattle-based Celerity Energy, proposed to San Diego Gas & Electric Co. (SDG&E) that it develop a “Clean Gen” program designed to upgrade 25 ...

CEO Aaron Jagdfeld at Generac’s Whitewater, Wisconsin, plant, where he started as an accountant and even worked some shift s on the assembly line. In 2008, things were looking grim for Generac. The 49 ...