Texxas Power · Commercial Standby Power
When the grid goes down, a municipal building, a school, a fire station or a water utility cannot simply close for the day. Texxas Power installs standby power for government buildings, schools, public-safety facilities and utilities across Fort Worth, Dallas, Frisco and the rest of North Texas, sized to the specific systems your facility has to keep running.
The difference
A retail store that loses power closes early. A municipal building, a school, a fire station, a water treatment plant or a police department does not get that option. Dispatch still has to answer. Water still has to be treated. A shelter still has to be a shelter. The standby power conversation for a public facility starts with which of those functions cannot stop, not with a generic building size.
For a public-safety communications center, continuity of power isn't a nice-to-have: a 911 center going dark isn't an acceptable outcome under any plan a city would actually adopt. For a water utility, the same pressure shows up differently, as a rule the state already has on the books. Either way, the planning comes first and the generator is how the plan actually holds up.
Know where you stand
None of this is one law. It's a handful of different rules, each covering a different piece of what your facility does, and none of them name a generator directly. Power is how most facilities actually meet them.
Water utilities
Water systems classified as "Affected Utilities" under the Texas Water Code must submit an emergency preparedness plan under 30 TAC Section 290.39, which grew directly out of SB 3, the state's response to Winter Storm Uri. The rule explicitly allows that plan to rely on a permanently installed, automatically starting generator.
Public safety
Emergency communications centers are typically built around NFPA 1225, the current standard covering backup power and system survivability for 911 and dispatch operations. It replaced the older NFPA 1221 standard. Some legacy systems may still operate under the older edition depending on when they were last upgraded.
Continuity planning
Texas state agencies are legally required to maintain a continuity of operations plan. Counties and cities are encouraged to adopt one but aren't required to, which is a real reason practice varies so much from one city or county to the next. A generator is often the difference between a plan on paper and one that actually holds.
The site assessment
A specific look at what your facility actually has to keep running, not a generic municipal quote.
We identify which systems in your facility actually cannot go down: dispatch consoles, water treatment process equipment, fire station bay doors and apparatus charging, or shelter HVAC, so the system we size covers what matters and not just the whole building. A fire station in Plano and a water utility office in Southlake get sized around two completely different answers to that question.
We check your panel's capacity and layout and your gas supply and meter capacity, to confirm what the site can actually support.
We plan the generator and pad location against clearance requirements for windows, doors, fresh-air intakes and service access, fitted to a facility that is already built and already operating.
Municipal, county and state facilities each carry their own permitting and plan-review process. We scope that path for your specific jurisdiction before anything is quoted.
What this means for your facility
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 jurisdiction, 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
The credentials and crew behind every installation we do, on a public facility or anywhere else in North Texas.
Texas Electrical Contractor License #41809, pulled and inspected on every job.
Generac, Kohler and Champion. We recommend what fits, not one default brand.
6 technicians and 5 service trucks across North Texas.
70 collective years in the industry; Nick Bieghler alone has 25+.
Rated by the people we've actually installed for.
Not a statewide one, as of this writing. Recent Texas school-safety laws (HB 3 and Alyssa's Law) fund and require things like classroom panic alert systems, not generators, but that technology only works if the power behind it stays on, which is a real reason to think about it even without a generator mandate. Water utilities are a different case: Texas's own emergency-preparedness rule for water systems, 30 TAC Section 290.39, explicitly names a generator as an acceptable way to meet it.
It depends entirely on which systems have to keep running: apparatus bay doors, charging systems, dispatch consoles, HVAC, or all of the above. We size it after seeing the site and reviewing your own continuity plan, not before.
We pull the permit and schedule the inspection for your install. Municipal and county facilities often carry a different review process than a standard commercial permit, which is part of what we scope during the site assessment.
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 jurisdiction.
That's exactly what the site visit is for: understanding your layout and your operating schedule before anything is scheduled, and anything outside the original quote needs your written approval before we touch it.
We work directly with facility managers, public works staff and department heads. Reach out and we'll have a straightforward conversation about what your facility needs.
Free site assessment
Tell us which systems in your facility cannot go down. We'll walk you through what that actually takes to power and install.
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