Texxas Power · Commercial Standby Power
A power failure in a healthcare facility is not an inconvenience. It is a patient-safety event the moment medical equipment, refrigeration or temperature control goes down. Texxas Power installs standby power for hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living communities and senior care facilities across Fort Worth, Dallas, Plano and the rest of North Texas, sized to your facility's actual load and installed and tested to NFPA 110.
The difference
In most commercial buildings, a power outage is a disruption. In a hospital, nursing home or assisted living community, it is a direct risk to the people inside. Medical equipment stops. Refrigerated medication warms. Climate control fails for residents who cannot regulate their own body temperature as well as a healthy adult can. That is the difference this page is built around.
Any facility that takes Medicare or Medicaid is already required to meet CMS's Emergency Preparedness Rule, which calls for an emergency and standby power system built around the facility's own emergency plan, installed, sited and tested to the Health Care Facilities Code (NFPA 99), the Life Safety Code (NFPA 101) and NFPA 110. That requirement exists whether or not a state law does. It is the real baseline, and it is why a healthcare generator conversation starts with your facility's own emergency plan, not with a product catalog.
Know where you stand
Texas doesn't need a 2025 headline to make this a legal question. The state's own rules have required an on-premises generator at licensed nursing facilities for years. What's changed recently is who else that applies to, and how.
State rule
Texas Administrative Code Section 554.303 requires nursing facilities to provide an emergency generator on the premises when equipment failure could put a resident's life at risk, installed to NFPA 37, NFPA 99 and NFPA 110. Facilities licensed more recently fall under a related, more detailed rule (Section 554.361) that classifies emergency power needs by risk category rather than removing the generator requirement. This isn't new or pending. It's been the baseline for years, independent of anything in the 2025 legislative session.
2025 law
Assisted living facilities specifically must now adopt a written emergency plan with a climate-controlled area of refuge, 68 to 82 degrees, required since January 2026. The law doesn't name a generator. Keeping a room that cold-tolerant through a Texas summer outage is, in practice, a power problem regardless of what the statute calls it.
County rules
Harris County amended its fire code in 2024 to require backup power for nursing and assisted living facilities in unincorporated areas. That's Houston, not here: Tarrant, Dallas, Denton and Collin counties haven't adopted an equivalent rule as of this writing. For a DFW facility, the state rule, HB 3595 and the federal CMS rule above are what's actually driving the decision right now, not a county deadline that doesn't exist yet.
The site assessment
A specific, well-defined look at your facility and its emergency plan, not a generic quote.
We look at what your facility's own emergency plan already requires to stay powered: life safety circuits, medical equipment, refrigeration, climate control, and anything else named in the plan, so the system we recommend matches what you are actually required to keep running.
We check your panel's capacity and layout and your gas supply and meter capacity, to confirm what the site can support before anything is sized.
We plan the generator and pad location against clearance requirements for windows, doors, fresh-air intakes and service access, fitted to a site that is already built and already operating.
Healthcare facilities often carry additional plan-review requirements beyond a standard commercial permit. We scope the permitting path for your specific city and facility type before anything is quoted, whether that's a senior living community in Southlake or a clinic near downtown Fort Worth.
In plain terms
NFPA 110 classifies emergency and standby power systems along three measures: how severe a failure would be (its Level), how fast power has to come back (its Type, in seconds), and how long the system has to run on its own fuel or stored energy (its Class). NFPA 110 itself does not decide which classification your facility needs. That is set by the codes that govern your specific occupancy, such as NFPA 99 and NFPA 101, or by your facility's own emergency plan and the authority that reviews it.
This is why we do not quote a system before seeing your facility and understanding what your emergency plan already commits you to. A hospital's emergency department and a small assisted living community are not sized or classified the same way, even though both fall under NFPA 110. We size, install and test the system to the classification your facility actually needs, not the one that is easiest to sell.
How it runs
A free, no-obligation visit to look at your panel, your gas supply, and the realistic pad locations on your site, so we size the system honestly instead of guessing.
Our team reviews what the site visit found before anything is filed with the city, so the permit application matches what's actually on your property.
We pull the permit and schedule the inspection. Timing varies by city, your utility's schedule, weather, and equipment delivery, not a fixed number of days.
Pad, gas line, electrical and transfer switch go in. A dig test runs before any trenching starts, so what's already buried is known before anything is cut, and anything outside the original quote gets your written approval before work starts on it.
The generator is registered under the manufacturer's warranty and started up.
We show your facilities team how to run the system and what to watch for, then cut power on purpose and confirm it carries your load while you're standing there.
Why work with us
It depends on your facility type. Nursing homes have been required to have emergency power since 1996, though that requirement does not cover heating or cooling. Assisted living facilities must have a written emergency preparedness plan under House Bill 3595, effective since September 2025, but the law itself does not mandate a generator. Separately, if your facility accepts Medicare or Medicaid, CMS's Emergency Preparedness Rule applies regardless of state law. We can walk through what applies to your specific facility during a site assessment.
Not currently. Harris County, around Houston, amended its fire code in 2024 to require backup power for nursing homes and assisted living facilities in its unincorporated areas. Tarrant, Dallas, Denton and Collin counties have not adopted an equivalent rule as of this writing.
NFPA 110 is a standard a system is built and tested to, not a credential a contractor holds. We size, install and test your system against the classification your facility's codes and emergency plan require, rather than claiming a blanket certification that does not exist.
Medical equipment backup is reviewed case by case, because connecting certain equipment carries a real backfeed risk if it is not done correctly. We look at your specific equipment during the site assessment rather than promising a blanket solution up front.
That is exactly what the site visit is for: understanding your layout, your occupied areas and your operating schedule before anything is scheduled, and anything outside the original quote needs your written approval before we touch it.
Once equipment arrives on site, installation typically runs three to five weeks. Permitting is usually the step most likely to take longer than expected, and it varies by city, so we don't promise a fixed number of days.
Free site assessment
Tell us about your facility and your emergency plan. We'll walk you through what your facility actually needs to stay powered, and what that looks like to install.
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