Self-contained packages from 60 kW to 500 kW — sound-attenuated, trailer-mounted, multi-voltage, most of them carrying their own double-wall fuel tank. Delivered, set up and serviced while they are out.
In this province a producing site often has gas underfoot, and a set that burns it saves the fuel haulage entirely. Diesel earns its place where that is not true — and on those jobs nothing else comes close.
A greenfield build, a yard, an event field, a remote camp. Nothing to tie into means the fuel arrives on a truck, and diesel is what the truck brings.
A week of work does not justify running a gas line and commissioning a fuel train. A trailered set arrives fuelled and leaves when the job does.
A set that waits months for an outage needs to start and take load immediately. Fuel stored on board rather than piped in is one less thing that can be unavailable when it matters.
A large motor starting is a shock to any generator, and a diesel absorbs it more readily than a gas set of the same rating. Crane, pump or compressor duty is where that shows.
Site has usable gas? Generator rentals in Alberta covers the gas side of the fleet and what field gas does to the fuel train.
Read live from the rental fleet — engine, alternator, voltage, enclosure and tank are on each unit page. A package listed here can be quoted today.
A generator on its own rarely finishes a job — distribution, load banks and fuel tanks are quoted with it.
Motors demand several times their running current for the instant they start. A set sized on running load alone can hold the site all day and still stumble on one compressor.
The fleet spans 120/208, 277/480 and multi-voltage packages up to 600 V, so this is usually a matter of picking the right unit rather than adding a transformer — as long as it is settled before delivery.
On-board tanks cover a working day on several units. Beyond that it is a question of deliveries or extra storage on site, and that answer shapes which package makes sense — particularly somewhere a fuel truck cannot reach easily.
A diesel loafing at a fraction of its rating for months collects unburned fuel in the exhaust. If the load is genuinely that small, a smaller set is the answer; where it cannot be, plan a load bank run into the schedule.
When there is no gas at the site, when the job is short enough that running a gas line is not worth it, and when the set has to sit idle for months and start on demand. Diesel also takes a large block of load in one step more comfortably, which matters when a big motor starts. Where there is usable gas and the term is long, the economics usually point the other way.
The running load plus whatever the largest motor demands at the moment it starts — those two numbers decide it, not the total of everything on the site. The rental fleet covers roughly 60 kW to 500 kW, and larger requirements are met by paralleling sets. Send the load list and it gets sized properly rather than rounded up.
It depends on the unit and how hard it is working — a set at half load burns far less than one at full. Several packages carry their own double-wall tank sized for around a day of work, and extra fuel storage can be rented alongside. Tell us the expected load and the refuelling arrangement on site, and the runtime comes back with the quote.
Yes, on the units built for it — the CAT XQ570 in the fleet parallels automatically with up to eight sets. That is how a site gets more capacity than any single package, and it also allows a set to be taken offline for service without the load dropping. Say what redundancy the job needs and the arrangement gets designed with the quote.
Diesel in an Alberta January is a real consideration: fuel treated for the season, block heat, and a start-up routine that does not assume a warm engine. It is worth raising when you book rather than discovering it at minus thirty, and it is part of what gets discussed when the package is specified.
Per job. Size, term, fuel arrangements, distribution and whether the set is standby or running continuously all move it. There is no rate card because a one-week rental and a two-year prime-power contract are not the same commercial question. Sizing advice costs nothing.
Running load, the biggest motor on the site, the voltage and the term. That is enough to put the right diesel package on a truck and quote it in writing.
