At any given time more than 3 million American households are without power due to power outages. Those people are left unable to heat or cool their home, as well as unable to cook or store food. One way to get around this is to get a generator. There are several sizes of generator, with a variety of voltage and amperage. One option that many people are choosing these days is Whole House Generators New Jersey.
Small generators can run some appliances, or kick start a heating or cooling system. Some people choose to hook up a refrigerator or freezer to one, as well as a stove. Larger generators can run a room or two. Those generators are generally smaller and relatively portable. Whole house generators are much larger. They are permanently installed. Before you can use it, you need to have an electrician come in and wire it into your home’s power system. You will also need to have a plumber come in and connect it to its fuel source. These generators tend to run on natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas. If you have natural gas service anyway, you can just have it connected to that service, otherwise you will need to install holding tanks.
These generators are also known as standby generators. Before you can decide which one you want to have for your house, you need to figure out exactly what your power needs are. Most modern homes do not use more than 200 amps. They are wired to not use any more energy than that.
While your home can consume that much power, it is likely that it never uses that much power. You need to figure out what your actual energy consumption is before you buy one, and decide if there are things that you are willing to do without when the power is out. If you want to replace every single amp of energy, you are going to have to look for one of the Whole House Generators in New Jersey that is 48 kilowatts. Odds are that a smaller one would do the job, just as well, which is why you need to calculate your energy usage.
