What an outage costs a restaurant
The walk-in cooler, the four-hour food-safety rule, and a dark dining room on a Tanglewood Friday. The arithmetic of a power outage for a Berkshire restaurant.
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Practical writing on backup power for homes and businesses in the Berkshires and the surrounding hills. The same advice we give over the phone, written down.
What size generator does a Berkshires home need?
Well pumps, boilers, propane, and heat pumps. The real arithmetic behind sizing a standby generator for a Berkshire home, so you can follow the quote.
Commercial generator testing: what the code expects
Monthly runs under load, annual load bank tests, wet stacking, and the log your fire inspector wants to see. Commercial generator upkeep, explained plainly.
Standby or portable? Choosing backup power for a New England home
Standby versus portable generators in New England. Cost, fuel, runtime, and which one actually fits your house after a week-long outage, from the Andrus crew.
Backup power for inns and lodges: the guests are already here
Egress lighting lasts about ninety minutes on battery, and a wedding does not reschedule. How Berkshire innkeepers and lodging owners think about standby power.
What happens during a generator service visit
Oil, valves, battery, and transfer switch. What a factory-trained technician checks during a twice-a-year standby generator service visit in the Berkshires.
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