Outage Security in Stone Oak
A Stone Oak homeowner wanted one thing from an outage: to barely notice it. A 26 kW Generac with a 200-amp automatic transfer switch alongside 13.6 kW of solar delivers exactly that.
The situation
This Stone Oak homeowner had one clear priority: security when the grid goes down. Not a portable generator and a tangle of extension cords — a system that responds on its own, whether they're home or not.
What we installed
- 26 kW Generac standby generator — sized for the whole home, not a critical-loads subset
- 200-amp automatic transfer switch — monitors utility power continuously and moves the entire panel to generator power when it drops, then back when the grid returns
- 13.6 kW rooftop solar — day-to-day production that keeps working alongside the standby system
How the install went
Honestly? Smoothly. Not every job has a war story, and that's the point of doing this work under a licensed electrical contractor: pad placement, gas supply, transfer switch integration, permit, and inspection — planned once, done once. Standby generator installs like this one typically take one to two days on site.
The result
The homeowner got what they asked for: reliability they don't have to think about. When an outage hits, the transfer switch sees it before anyone reaches for a flashlight — the generator starts itself, carries the house, and shuts itself down when utility power is stable again. Solar keeps doing its daytime job through it all. Their words: pleased with the overall reliability. Ours: that's the system doing exactly what it was designed to do.
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