
While renewables play a vital role in the energy transition, conventional generation remains essential to achieving reliability, resilience, and dispatchable control. At PowerStack, we integrate clean-burning, high-efficiency generation technologies into our microgrid designs to ensure your system delivers when the grid doesn’t—or when the economics demand it.
Our conventional assets are never off-the-shelf or oversold. We design to your actual needs—balancing capacity, runtime, emissions, and cost to create the right mix for your site, your mission, and your financial strategy.
Proven. Dispatchable. Grid-Independent.
Natural gas generators are a dependable source of firm power that can be ramped quickly and run during peak demand or utility outages. For sites requiring around-the-clock reliability—such as cold storage, logistics hubs, industrial parks, or defense infrastructure—gas generators offer unmatched flexibility and runtime. PowerStack also supports dual-fuel and propane-compatible gensets where pipeline gas isn’t available. With proper design, emissions controls, and run-time modeling, these assets can serve as an efficient cornerstone of a hybrid microgrid system.
Double the Value from a Single Source
Combined Heat and Power (CHP) systems generate electricity and useful thermal energy from a single fuel source—typically natural gas. This integrated approach delivers efficiency gains of up to 80% and can dramatically reduce utility costs for facilities with thermal loads (e.g., food processing, manufacturing, healthcare, and multi-use campuses).
CHP isn’t just smart—it’s also financially strategic. When properly integrated into a microgrid, CHP systems allow natural gas generators to qualify for the Investment Tax Credit (ITC) by meeting thermal energy recovery thresholds. This creates an important pathway for sites to access federal incentives while maintaining the flexibility and reliability of gas-fired power.
Critical Backup. Rugged and Ready.
Diesel generators remain a viable option for backup and emergency power, particularly in remote locations or during extended utility outages. With rapid start-up times and a robust global supply chain, diesel gensets can provide mission-critical reliability where other fuels are limited or unavailable. While diesel is not typically used for daily dispatch due to emissions and fuel costs, it plays a key role in resilience strategies—especially when paired with renewables and smart load management to minimize runtime. PowerStack incorporates diesel thoughtfully, using advanced controls and optimized run cycles to reduce environmental impact and extend fuel reserves when it matters most.
Orchestrating Power with Precision
Integrated smart controls are the brain of a modern microgrid—coordinating generation, storage, and load in real time to maximize performance, efficiency, and reliability. At PowerStack, we deploy advanced energy management systems (EMS) and microgrid controllers that respond dynamically to price signals, load fluctuations, weather forecasts, and grid conditions. These systems enable seamless transitions between grid-connected and islanded modes, automate dispatch across multiple assets, and ensure critical loads are prioritized during outages. With layered cybersecurity and vendor-neutral architecture, our controls provide both transparency and adaptability—giving you full command of your energy system from anywhere.
In uncertain markets, reliability is everything. PowerStack’s technology-agnostic approach empowers you to design an energy system that balances cost, emissions, performance, and policy incentives. Whether you’re integrating CHP, gas, diesel, or renewables, we deliver systems that work in harmony—built for today’s conditions and ready for tomorrow’s challenges.
Resilience doesn’t have to mean compromise. Let’s build the right mix—together.