Seventeen years sizing, permitting, installing and maintaining standby systems across Greater Houston. Our own electricians, our own gas fitters, our own service techs — no subcontractors, one number to call at 2 a.m.
A real person from our Houston office replies — the same business day, or within the hour if you have no power.
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Permit rules and drive times change from city to city. Nothing is sent yet.
Say “emergency” when you call. Technicians are on a 24/7 rotation, 365 days — including during named storms, when we run extended crews. Maintenance-plan customers go first during a regional outage; we would rather tell you that now than have you find out then.
A homeowner pricing a first generator and a plant manager pricing downtime need opposite things from us. Pick the one that is actually you.
Load calculation, permit, pad, gas line, transfer switch, commissioning. We handle the utility and municipal paperwork and hand you a system that has already been tested under load.
14 kW – 48 kW · Generac & Kohler · financing available
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Life-safety and continuity systems for clinics, data rooms, food service, water districts and manufacturing. Spec review, switchgear coordination, load bank testing and NFPA 110 documentation.
50 kW – 500 kW+ · diesel & natural gas · Tier 4
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Will not start, will not transfer, alarming, or failed its self-test. We service every major brand — including units we did not install — and stock the controllers, batteries and transfer switches that actually fail here.
All brands · 24/7 emergency · flat diagnostic fee
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A generator is a small engine that sits outdoors in Gulf Coast humidity for months at a time. Scheduled oil, filters and valve checks are the difference between a backup plan and an expensive lawn ornament.
Gold: 2 visits · Platinum: 4 · storm priority
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Prefer to talk it through? (281) 997-9110 reaches our office directly — Mon–Fri 7:30 to 5:00, and the on-call technician after hours.
Most Houston homes are sold one or two sizes larger than they need. Air conditioning is the reason — the starting load of your compressors decides the machine far more than your square footage does, and an installer who has not asked about your AC has not sized anything.
This gives you a starting point for that conversation. It is not a quote, and no web page can replace a load calculation at the property — but it will tell you whether the number someone has quoted you is in the right neighbourhood.
Two houses with identical numbers here can be several thousand dollars apart, because the cost is driven by the gas run, whether the meter needs upsizing, and how far the generator sits from your panel. None of that can be guessed from a slider.
What it does tell you: if someone has quoted you two sizes above this without measuring anything, ask them why.
Get it sized properlyA generator install is mostly electrical work — a load calculation, a transfer switch, a service connection, sometimes a panel. Plenty of companies sell the machine and subcontract the part that actually keeps you safe.
We hold the licence ourselves. TECL #31315. Our own electricians do the wiring, we pull whatever permits apply, and we meet the inspector.
More about us →of Houston-area homes lost power during Hurricane Beryl — the city’s most widespread outage in decades.
of Houston households had at least one power outage between January and April 2024.
of Houston-area households had an outage lasting six hours or more in the past year.
of Harris County homes were without power at the peak of Winter Storm Uri in 2021.
Generac scores all 3,143 counties in the United States for standby generator need. Harris scores 100 out of 100 — first in the country. The national average is 41. Every county we cover sits in the national top 3%.
Harris · #1 in the US
Montgomery · #42
Brazoria · #68
Fort Bend · #68
Galveston · #95
PowerScore measures the market, not the installer. It is simply the reason we have 2,313 units in the ground here rather than somewhere else.
Sources: The Texas Tribune, Click2Houston, U.S. Census / Houston Chronicle, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (2024). County scores: Generac PowerINSIGHTS PowerScore, 2026.
A two-system, six-ton home with a pool. Managed load on the second condenser let us stay on an air-cooled machine instead of stepping up to liquid cooling, which saved the customer the largest single jump in the price.
Side-yard setback was thirty-eight inches. We pulled the variance, set the pad and screened it to the association’s specification rather than asking the customer to negotiate it themselves.
Four hours of acceptable downtime meant a forty-eight-hour on-site fuel plan and a load bank test at full rated load before handover, with the documentation to match.
The units we get called out to during storms are almost always the ones nobody has looked at. A generator is a small engine sitting outdoors in Gulf Coast humidity for months without running — hot, humid, dusty and cold, which is why twice a year is the interval this climate actually needs.
Spring and autumn service on the manufacturer’s schedule, oil and filters, battery test, load test, plus priority dispatch during a regional outage. Monitoring added if required.
Quarterly attention for units that run hard, sit in harsher conditions, or carry something you cannot afford to lose. Same priority dispatch. Monitoring added if required.
Quarterly or monthly preventive maintenance, annual load bank test, NFPA 110 record keeping and fuel polishing where there is a diesel tank to look after.
Available on units we did not install, which is a large share of the plans we run.
We are factory-certified on both Generac and Kohler, which means we have no commercial reason to steer you toward either. Our own completed jobs put them within a few hundred dollars of each other at the same size.
So the recommendation you get is about your house — your air conditioning, your gas supply, where the pad can legally go and what your panel will take. Not about what we happen to have in the warehouse.
If you already know which one you want, that is fine too. If you do not, that is the normal position to be in three days after an outage, and it is what the site visit is for.
PowerPro Elite Plus in Generac’s dealer programme and factory-certified for warranty work. 2,313 units installed across Greater Houston, counted in Generac’s own system.
Authorised Kohler generator dealer with Kohler-certified technicians, so warranty claims are handled here rather than routed to whoever is available.
On site or virtual. We confirm what you want covered, where you are and when you need it.
A licensed technician does the load calculation, recommends the machine, and puts a written scope in your hands.
Permits, pad, gas, transfer switch and panel work. Our own TECL-licensed electricians, to Houston code.
Full diagnostics, warranty activated, and a walkthrough so you know exactly what happens on an outage.
Most installs are one to four days on site. Permitting and utility coordination usually runs one to three weeks depending on the jurisdiction — we handle all of it.
“Generator Industries was very easy to work with and they did a great turnkey job. The staff I interacted with were knowledgeable and helpful. I have recommended Generator Industries to others.”
“The service tech was very knowledgable and had the required parts to fix it on his van. He was thorough, professional and left the machine and his work area clean and in order. I highly recommend this company and I will be starting a bi-annual service contract with them.”
“Three crews came: to set the generator, plumbing and electricians. They were all very professional and pleasant. When the installation was complete, I was given a full hands on explanation. It was a good experience.”
One to four days on site. The honest timeline is the permit and the gas work, which usually puts the whole thing at two to six weeks from signature. Anyone promising you next week is not counting the permit.
Across our last 155 completed residential installs the median was about $17,800, and roughly three quarters came in under $20,000. Most land between $13,000 and $22,000.
Three things set where you fall in that range: generator size, whether the gas meter needs upsizing, and how far the machine sits from your panel.
Often not, at 22 kW and above. A standby generator is usually the largest gas appliance a house has. We calculate the total connected load and, where the meter needs upsizing, we deal with the utility and show it as its own line rather than as a surprise.
Rarely. Texas law limits how far an association can go in prohibiting a standby generator, and most objections are about placement and screening rather than the machine itself. We have pulled variances and screened installs to association specification plenty of times.
Yes, and a large share of our service work is exactly that. It makes no difference to the price or to how quickly we come out.
In Houston that is the only question that matters, and the answer is yes — correctly sized. On homes with two or three systems we often use load management, which staggers the compressors so a smaller machine carries the same house without you noticing.
Dispatched from Mosley Road in Houston near BW8 rather than from out of state. On an ordinary Tuesday that is irrelevant. In the week after a named storm it is the whole thing.
Hurricane season runs June to November, and the service queue fills the moment a system enters the Gulf.
Check your address“During Hurricane Beryl, I stayed with my grandma who had a generator installed by Generator Industries… our power was out for a week. She was the only one who had power in our family and the generator worked phenomenally! … the lights went out for maybe 10 seconds before the generator kicked on.”
Mon–Fri 7:30 to 5:00 from our Houston office, and the on-call tech after hours.