Fire and EMS staging
Lights, radio chargers, laptops and coffee at a staging area or rehab sector while crews assemble and queue, with no engine noise over radio traffic.
Emergency and public service
Clean, silent power the moment you arrive.
A self-contained 12 kW energy plant for fire and EMS staging, emergency operations, shelters, warming centers and polling places. No engine to start, no fuel to haul, no exhaust near your crews or the public, and clean, stable power for the radios, laptops and equipment that cannot afford to fail.
Where it serves
A strategic power resource for public need
Wherever a town, an agency or a crew needs power before the grid can provide it, the unit arrives charged and runs from the first minute.
Incident command posts
Clean power for command laptops, printers, routers and satellite internet, set down wherever command is established.
Polling places
Steady power for ballot-marking devices, tabulators, poll books and lighting when a polling place loses power or has none.
Shelters and warming centers
Lights, phone charging, medical device charging and a refrigerator for medicine at a shelter, a warming center or a cooling center.
Communications
Fuel-free power for radio repeaters, cellular boosters and network gear at a temporary site.
Town and state operations
Public works sites, outdoor public hearings, vaccination clinics and community events on land with no service.
The problem most people never consider
Not all electricity is equally safe for electronics
A generator spins an alternator with a combustion engine. Its voltage and frequency wander as the engine responds to changing loads, and the shape of its waveform can be badly distorted. Most people plugging in a radio or a laptop never think about this until something fails.
What the manufacturers themselves say
Generac, one of the largest generator makers, states that power with more than 6% total harmonic distortion "can cause sensitive electronics like computers, televisions, and cell phones to fail prematurely", and that generators with 6% to 30% distortion are not recommended for sensitive electronics. Its inverter models are rated at 3% or less.
Schneider Electric, which makes APC backup power supplies, explains that a backup supply (UPS) fed by a generator may read the generator's distorted voltage as bad power, switch to its own battery, try to switch back, and repeat that cycle as often as every few seconds. Its guidance is to oversize the generator to three to five times the load.
So the usual workaround of a generator feeding a battery backup that feeds the electronics adds two more devices that can fail, and the electronics can still be exposed to unstable power along the way.
Our unit makes its power the other way. The battery stores energy as direct current, and the inverter builds the alternating-current waveform electronically, at a steady voltage and frequency, with no engine in the loop. TO FILL: confirm the inverter is pure sine wave and its rated distortion.
For elections, this matters directly. The U.S. Election Assistance Commission expects voter-facing voting systems in a polling place to carry about two hours of battery backup so that a power loss does not lose or corrupt data. A clean, steady external supply keeps those devices from ever needing to fall back on it.
Sources: Generac, "What Is Total Harmonic Distortion (THD)?"; Schneider Electric FAQ FA158891, "The UPS won't operate online when powered by generator"; U.S. Election Assistance Commission, Decision on RFI 2023-05.
Why agencies choose it
Built for the first hour of an incident
Power from minute one
No starting, priming or warming up. The unit arrives charged and is live as soon as it is connected.
Nothing to refuel
No fuel logistics during an incident, no fuel cans in a staging area, and nothing to run out at 3 a.m.
No carbon monoxide
Portable generators cause an average of nearly 100 carbon monoxide deaths a year in the United States, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. A battery burns nothing, so it can sit near people and doors.
Quiet enough for radio
Crews hear their radios, voters hear poll workers, and shelter guests can sleep.
Clean, steady power
A stable electronic waveform for radios, laptops, medical devices and voting equipment, without a generator's distortion.
Maine-based
Dispatched from Portland, Maine, to sites up to 300 miles away, in a state with the highest average number of power interruptions per customer in 2020 (U.S. Energy Information Administration).
Flexible supply
Battery first, and other clean options when the job needs them
Some deployments run longer or draw more than one battery unit can carry, and some agencies already own generators they need to keep running. We are open to arranging alternative power for those cases, including renewable biodiesel blends for agency generators, alongside our battery units.
Biodiesel cuts the fossil fuel in a generator without changing the engine, though in a Maine winter the blend has to be chosen for the cold. Pure biodiesel can begin to cloud at around 37 to 40 °F, so cold-season supply uses lower blends with winter additives. Tell us the generator model and the season, and we will work out the right fuel with you.
Source: National Biodiesel Education Program, Tech Note 31, Storage and Handling.
The unit
Specifications
12 kWpower output
18 kWhbattery storage
1 kWsolar recharging
30 A + 50 Areceptacles
15standard 120 V outlets
USBdevice charging
At an average load of 1 kW, roughly a command post's laptops, radios, lights and a coffee maker, the battery alone runs about 14 hours, assuming about 80% of its capacity is usable. Solar adds roughly 1.5 to 4 kWh a day in Maine.
Request power
Tell us what you need powered
For an urgent need, call or text (575) 915-7095. For planned needs such as an election or a scheduled exercise, send the request below and we will reply with availability and a quote. You can also email support@happyplanetpower.com.
- Phone
- (575) 915-7095
- support@happyplanetpower.com
- Contact
- Manuel Jimenez