Mecklenburg County, NC
Dependable Generator & Electrical Service in Charlotte, NC
From 1890s streetcar suburbs to the newer streets of Ballantyne, Charlotte homes ask a lot of their wiring. We install the generators, chargers and panels that keep up, and we handle the permits.
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- Years serving Gaston County
- 50+
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- Warranty on our work
- 10-yr
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Old Charlotte wiring, new Charlotte loads
A Dilworth bungalow from the streetcar years and a 2010s house near Ballantyne need very different things from an electrician. The older homes often started with service sized for lights and a few appliances, and now they run central air, induction ranges and a car charging in the driveway. The newer ones usually have the amps but nothing to fall back on when the grid drops. We size every job to the house in front of us, the same way we handle generator and electrical service in Huntersville further up I-77.
What we do for Charlotte homes
Every job below is handled by our own licensed electricians and generator techs, with the permit pulled through Mecklenburg County Code Enforcement and the inspection booked for you.
Generators
Generator Installation
Standby units with an automatic transfer switch, so a week like the 2002 ice storm passes without a dark house.
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Generator Repair
Diagnosis for units that would not start, threw a fault code or quit partway through the last outage.
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Generator Maintenance
Pre-season service so the unit is ready before ice and wind start bringing limbs down on Charlotte lines.
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Electrical
EV Charger Installation
Level 2 chargers for garages from SouthPark to Ballantyne, with a load check first so the charger fits the service.
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Electrical Panel Upgrade
Service upgrades for streetcar-era houses in Dilworth, Myers Park and Plaza Midwood that now carry modern loads.
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Electrical Panel Repair
Repairs for tripping breakers, heat-damaged connections and tired panels in Charlotte's older housing.
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Electrical Panel Installation
New main panels and subpanels for additions, finished basements and detached garages behind older homes.
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What Charlotte throws at a home's power
Most of our Charlotte calls trace back to four things: big trees, aging service, long ice storms and a grid that has run short on the coldest night of the year.
A canopy that comes down on the lines
When Hurricane Hugo reached Charlotte in September 1989, falling trees cut power to 85 percent of the city's homes and businesses. The same mature oaks still shade Myers Park and Dilworth, right over a lot of overhead service drops.
Ice storms that outlast the fridge
Four days after the December 2002 ice storm, more than 172,000 Charlotte customers were still without power. A standby generator is built for exactly that kind of week, not just a flicker.
A grid that can run short
On December 24, 2022, during Winter Storm Elliott, Duke Energy ran the first rotating outages in its history in the Carolinas. Backup power is no longer only a storm question.
Mill houses and bungalows on original service
The North Charlotte mill village in NoDa dates to 1903, and Dilworth was laid out in the 1890s. Before one of these homes takes an EV charger or a heat pump, it needs a real load calculation.
All over Charlotte, from NoDa to Ballantyne
Our crews come in from Gastonia for calls across the city and the rest of Mecklenburg County, including these neighborhoods.
- Dilworth
- Myers Park
- Plaza Midwood
- NoDa
- SouthPark
- Ballantyne
- Uptown
Questions from Charlotte homeowners
Yes. Electrical permits for Charlotte homes are issued by Mecklenburg County Code Enforcement rather than the city. We pull the permit, book the inspection and meet the inspector, so the work is on record when you insure or sell the house.
Often, but it has to be checked. Some streetcar-era homes have been rewired and upgraded over the years and some have not. We run a load calculation on your panel before quoting, and if the service is too small we explain whether a load management device or a panel upgrade is the better fix.
Duke Energy serves Charlotte and handles the lines and the restoration. A standby generator covers the gap: when grid power drops, the automatic transfer switch moves your circuits to the generator within seconds, then hands them back once Duke restores service.
All of it, from Uptown and NoDa to SouthPark and Ballantyne, along with the rest of Mecklenburg County. We are open 24/7, so outage and emergency calls are answered day or night.
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