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 ...

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 ...

Generators must be kept at least 20 feet away from your home and never operated in enclosed spaces like basements, garages or crawl spaces. They need 3 to 4 feet of clear space above and on all sides ...

To get the best efficiency for my battery backup system I want to make sure that the backup battery is large enough to cope with at least twice the total amp hours required in my calculations. So, in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Portable generators have become fairly common and their popularity will likely increase as extreme weather events become a more ...

When the power goes out due to storms, grid failure, or natural disasters, a reliable home backup generator can keep your essential appliances running and your family safe. From powering refrigerators ...

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Superstorms like Sandy have heralded in widespread understanding of the long-term impact severe weather can have. Blackouts, food shortages and communications failure have long been associated with ...

But no longer should generators be viewed as a required but mainly idle asset. Many New York City property owners and managers are now realizing something crucially important about backup generators.

There’s been a lot of talk about the impact of data centers and what consumers will pay for power. Now, environmentalists are ...