Greater Charlotte · Whole-home standby generators
When the Carolinas grid gives out,
your house keeps running.
A whole-home standby generator auto-starts within seconds of an outage and runs on your natural gas line — through the hurricane, the ice storm, and the summer thunderstorms. No rationing, no refueling, no scramble.
- Sizes
- 10–24 kW
- Starts in
- Seconds, automatically
- Runs on
- Your natural gas line
Why the Carolinas need one
Duke Energy can't promise the lights stay on. A generator can.
How often Charlotte loses power — the data →01 · Hurricanes & remnants
Helene proved how bad it gets
When Hurricane Helene hit the Carolinas in September 2024, more than 1.7 million Duke Energy customers lost power — many for days, some far longer. Tropical systems and their remnants reach the Piedmont every season, and the Charlotte area takes the wind and the falling trees.
02 · Ice & summer storms
Winter ice, summer thunderstorms
Piedmont ice storms load trees and lines until they snap, and can leave neighborhoods dark for days. Summer brings severe thunderstorms and straight-line winds. Between the two, Charlotte's tree canopy makes outages a year-round risk, not a rare one.
03 · The fix
A generator doesn't care about the grid
A whole-home standby generator runs on the natural gas line you already have — indefinitely. It doesn't ration power like a battery or need refueling like a portable. When Duke Energy goes down, it just keeps your house running.
How it works
Three steps. No pressure at any of them.
- 01
Free load assessment
We size the generator to your home — whole-home comfort or just the essentials (fridge, heat, well pump, medical equipment). No guesswork, a real load calculation.
- 02
Design & honest quote
We lay out the unit, transfer switch, gas, and electrical work with the real installed cost — no vague ranges, no surprises.
- 03
Permit, install & activate
Licensed local pros handle the permits, gas line, electrical, pad, and automatic transfer switch — then test it end to end. Usually a day on-site.
Straight talk on cost
What a whole-home generator actually costs.
Most whole-home standby installs run $8,000–$15,000 all-in — the unit, the automatic transfer switch, the concrete pad, the gas line, the electrical, permits, and labor. Bigger homes with heavy HVAC run higher; an essentials-only setup runs less. We give you the real number for your home, not a vague range — and we install both Generac (best value) and Kohler (premium, quieter, longer-lived), sized to what you actually need.
Free assessment
Find out what your home needs.
Free and no pressure. We're a Charlotte-based team — tell us about your home and a local specialist will follow up, usually the same day, with the right generator size and a straight, all-in price.
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