Generator Sales, Service & Installation in Copake, NY

Andrus Power Solutions is a Berkshire-based standby generator contractor in Lee, Massachusetts. Copake is twenty miles southwest through Egremont and Mount Washington, and it is part of our regular service area along with Hillsdale, Ancram, Taghkanic, and the rest of southern Columbia County.

Copake Lake and the Weekenders

Copake Lake is the second-largest natural lake in Columbia County and the social anchor for a meaningful share of the town's second-home population. Houses ring the lake along Lakeview Road and the surrounding streets, with the Copake Country Club at the north end. A real share of the lakefront and lake-view properties are owned out of New York City and used a few months a year.

The standby install brief on a Copake Lake property is the same as it is on the Otis Reservoir or the Salisbury Twin Lakes: keep the well pump running, keep the heat circulating, protect the plumbing through long owner-absent stretches. A 18 to 26 kilowatt air-cooled unit on a buried propane tank, an outdoor automatic transfer switch, whole-panel or critical-loads coverage depending on the everyday load, and a freeze-stat alarm on the heating system.

The Rest of Copake

Outside the lake, the town is rural. Copake Hamlet sits along Route 22 with a small commercial cluster. Copake Falls is a small village near the Taconic State Park trailhead, with cottages and weekender houses on the road up to Bash Bish. The North Mountain Road corridor and the rural farms along the back roads share the long-feeder, slow-restoration outage profile that characterizes the eastern Columbia County hill towns.

Every property outside the village cores is on a private well and on propane.

Bash Bish, the Taconic Ridge, and Why Outages Are Bad Here

The Taconic ridge is right at Copake's eastern edge. Storms tracking northeast off the Hudson Valley pile up against the ridge and drop ice and wet snow on the lines coming over from Massachusetts. Copake catches it on the way down. Three-day outages are a regular feature of the winter calendar, and the National Grid restoration order favors the denser river-valley towns first.

Where We Work in Copake

Copake hamlet, Copake Lake and the streets around it, Copake Falls, the homes along Route 22 north and south, North Mountain Road, the rural farms along Snyder Hill Road and Empire Road, and the cottages up the road toward the Bash Bish trailhead.