Be Totally Prepared for Your Whole House Generator Purchase
If Your Whole House Generator is Natural Gas-Powered Read This:
For a whole house generator, your best bet for fuel source will either be natural gas or propane, whichever is available in your area. Diesel generators are more rugged; they are louder and require delivery and storage of diesel fuel, and are therefore better suited for industrial applications rather than residential. And as gasoline-fueled generators are usually the portable type, they are not typically used to power an entire household. (To read more about the different fuel types, check out our generator buyer's guide.) But a whole house generator set powered by natural gas or propane is permanently installed outside of your home and is hooked up to your utility gas lines, so you don’t have to bother with refueling the unit or fuel storage.
If you wind up choosing a natural gas powered generator, here is a timesaving tip that can keep you from having to backtrack during the installation process: make sure to check the unit’s required gas pressure and call your gas utility company to verify that that amount is available to your home. Some higher-power whole house generator models will occasionally require more than the standard delivery pressure available to your home. If this is the case with your whole house generator set, you will need to have an additional high pressure gas meter installed by the gas company. They do this often; it will just be a lot more convenient to have it done before your generator dealer shows up to install.
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