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Cabarrus County, NC

Experienced Generator & Electrical Service in Concord, NC

Since 1904, much of Concord has run on power from its own city-owned electric system, while Duke Energy serves other Cabarrus County addresses. We install generators, panels and chargers on either grid, and we pull the county permit.

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50+
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Warranty on our work
10-yr

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City power, Duke power and the night both went down

In June 2017, a fire at a Concord delivery point damaged both city and Duke Energy equipment and cut power to more than 13,500 residents overnight. It was a clear reminder that a city-owned grid still has outages, and that backup power works the same whichever utility owns the lines. What it does care about is the panel. Before we quote, we check the meter, the service size and where a transfer switch fits, whether the home is a Victorian on North Union Street or a newer townhome in Afton Village. One county permit office covers all of Cabarrus, so we run generator and electrical service in Kannapolis the same way, just up the road from Concord.

Seven services, one county permit office

Every job is handled by our licensed electricians and Generac and Kohler certified generator techs. The permit goes through Cabarrus County Construction Standards, which inspects work across the county, Concord included.

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Where Concord tests a home's power and wiring

A city-run grid, Duke Energy territory next door, houses from the 1870s and subdivisions from the 2000s: Concord mixes all four, and each one shapes the work.

  1. Two utilities, one county

    Concord Electric Systems has been a public power system since 1904 and now keeps more than 34,000 accounts on 1,763 miles of line. Duke Energy serves other parts of Cabarrus County, and in 1997 a dispute over who could serve a single annexed lot went to the NC Supreme Court. Your address decides who restores your power.

  2. A fire at the hand-off point

    In June 2017, a fire at a delivery point damaged city and Duke Energy equipment at once and left more than 13,500 Concord residents without power. Power came back briefly after 1 a.m., then dropped again before dawn. A standby generator rides out that kind of night no matter whose equipment failed.

  3. Hugo did not stop at the coast

    On the morning of September 22, 1989, Hurricane Hugo reached Cabarrus County with winds nobody expected that far inland, downing trees and power lines across the county. Today about 732 miles of Concord's city lines still run overhead, where a falling limb can reach them.

  4. 1870s houses beside 2000s builds

    The North Union Street Historic District holds 150 contributing buildings, many of them Greek Revival and Late Victorian homes built after 1870. Afton Village went up mostly between the late 1990s and the mid 2010s. The first group needs a careful load check before new equipment, and the second usually has the amps but no backup.

Across Concord, from Union Street to Christenbury

It is a straight run up I-85 from our Gastonia shop, and we cover the whole city and the rest of Cabarrus County, including these neighborhoods.

  • Downtown Concord
  • North Union Street
  • South Union Street
  • Mill Hill
  • Afton Village
  • Christenbury
  • Moss Creek
  • Kings Crossing

Open 24/7, dispatched from Gastonia

501 E Franklin Blvd, Gastonia, NC 28054

(980) 206-3523

Questions from Concord homeowners

Cabarrus County. Its Construction Standards division handles building inspections and permitting for all areas of the county, Concord included, and it has its own electrical inspectors. The City of Concord reviews zoning on construction applications. For a generator, panel or charger job, we pull the county permit and are on site when the Cabarrus inspector signs off.

It depends on your address, not only on whether you live inside the city limits. Concord Electric Systems serves customers both inside and outside the city, and Duke Energy serves other parts of Cabarrus County. Your power bill shows which one you have. Either way, your standby unit keeps the house running until that utility restores service.

Yes. The generator connects to your home's wiring through a transfer switch, so it works the same behind either meter. Both systems have outages: the June 2017 delivery point fire left more than 13,500 Concord residents dark, and a late-November 2023 Duke outage reached nearly 4,000 Cabarrus County customers.

Usually, with planning. Homes in the district date from after 1870, and their wiring varies from house to house after generations of updates. We run a load calculation, check the existing service and explain whether a panel upgrade or a load management device is the cleaner route. Our work carries a 10-year warranty, and financing is available.

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