My cousin called me last spring. His small machining shop outside Suzhou had lost grid power twice in a month, and a salesman had just quoted him a &#…

The call came at 10:40 on a Tuesday night. A contractor I’d sold a 500 kVA set to six months earlier, his voice flat in the way voices get when …

Every few months, someone asks me some version of the same question: “Isn’t diesel dead? Shouldn’t we just go solar with batteries?&…

The storm hit on a Friday evening, right around 7. By 7:20 the whole street was dark, and by 8 the utility company’s recorded message was cheerf…

I once watched a contractor buy a 500 kVA diesel generator for a job site that needed about 180. He liked the price — a dealer was clearing inventory …

A diesel engine filter assembly on a generator set, the kind of standby equipment now on multi-year backorder.  (Photo: Jonathan Cooper / Unsplas…