How many of you are wishing you had bought a generator after the big Christmas ice storm of 2004? You meant to buy one but one thing led to another and you didn't do it, and that probably frustrated ...

Without fuel, your generator is useless. Our experts recommend checking your main fuel tanks levels once a week if your model ...

During the fall and winter, windstorms can knock out power for thousands of people in the Puget Sound area for hours and ...

Editor’s Note — October 9, 2025: We checked our recommendations to verify that they are still in stock and competitively priced. We’ve also added a standby generator, the Generac Guardian 22-Kilowatt ...

You can think of a generator as a motor that runs in reverse. Instead of supplying electricity to a stator to make the rotor spin, a generator is mechanically driven to make its rotor spin to supply ...

As part of our August cover package, "Facing Down Disaster," senior home editor Roy Berendsohn already told you how to plan ahead for power in the advent of disaster—and which portable electrical ...

A good generator can save the day when the power goes out—but if it’s set up wrong, all that money you spent might as well ...

So, I want to make a small hand-operated electric generator with my kids just to kind of show them how this kind of thing works. I understand the basics, but there are some things I want to do that I ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503, “Mitsubishi Electric”) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (TOKYO: 7011, “Mitsubishi Heavy Industries”) announced today that the ...

An electrical engineer is warning consumers that not all generators are created equal, and many of the smaller, cheaper ones ...