Generac generator installation Seguin sized to your loads and tested before we leave

A Generac install in Seguin

We list what you want running in an outage, check the panel and the service, and recommend the Generac unit and the transfer switch to match. Then we set the unit, mount and wire the automatic transfer switch, run the wiring between the generator, the switch and your panel, and start it up and test it under load before we leave. For a business, the same sizing and transfer switch work applies at commercial scale.

• A load list room by room
• Automatic transfer switch at the service
• Start up and a transfer test under load

The utility side in Seguin

The City of Seguin owns its own electric distribution system and buys wholesale power from CPS Energy. Outside the city's service areas other utilities serve, and GVEC names Seguin among the areas its services cover. GVEC asks members with a backup generator to let it know. Its generator agreement says the generator and transfer switch are installed only by a Texas licensed electrician, outside GVEC's easement and properly grounded, that a transfer switch never goes on a GVEC pole, and that no one installs a meter collar or opens GVEC's meter. The transfer switch goes in after GVEC is notified, so it can arrange a temporary disconnect.

Permits in Seguin

In Seguin, permits come from the Development Services Center through the Development Services Portal. Seguin has its own page on home backup generator systems, below, and we follow it.

Contractor registration

Seguin requires every contractor to be registered with the Development Services Center before any permit is issued. The registration is in place before the permit is pulled, so it never holds up a start date.

Seguin's rules for home backup generators

Seguin's page on residential backup systems says these systems no longer need a building permit or a building inspection, and they still have to meet the 2021 International Residential Code. A licensed electrician pulls an electrical permit for installing or changing service equipment, with an electrical diagram, and a licensed plumber pulls a plumbing permit for the gas piping. The city inspects the main disconnect, the grounding and bonding and parts such as the transfer switch, not the generator itself.