Panels and transfer switches that take a generator's output to the bunkhouses, a plant's auxiliary loads or the equipment on a Montney pad. Rented across the Peace Country and sent up from Red Deer with the cable already cut to length.
Across the Peace Country a temporary supply often has to serve something closer to a small settlement than a single machine: sleeping units, kitchens, shops and light towers, or a plant's support systems through a shutdown. These are the jobs that ask the most of the distribution.
Camps for pipeline, plant and forestry projects string a generator's output across rows of sleepers, a kitchen, a dry and a parking lot full of plug-ins. Panels along each row keep the runs short and give every building its own protected circuit.
Prime power →During a shutdown the plant's own supply is often part of the work. A transfer switch moves instrument air, the control room and the heat trace onto rental power for the window, while a separate panel feeds the contractor trailers and lunchrooms set up beside the plant.
Emergency power distribution →Pads in the Pipestone, Elmworth and Kakwa areas carry a lot of equipment that isn't the rig — office trailers, light towers, pumps and heaters — and they move often. A panel by the trailers with short feeds to everything else keeps cords out of the truck traffic.
Oilfield production power →On a farmyard the dryer, the aeration fans and the augers are spread along a row of bins, often on a single-phase service or none at all. A rental set with a panel at the bin row gives each fan its own breaker for the weeks the crop is coming off.
Agriculture power →The units below are pulled live from the rental inventory; gear already on a job is left off. Each card links to its full ratings. Cable is quoted against the distances you send, and a rental transformer bridges the gap when the generator and the equipment run at different voltages.
Need the set as well? Generator rentals in Grande Prairie has the gas and diesel units and the heat that goes with them. For other parts of the province, start at power distribution rentals across Alberta.
Peace Country distribution is assembled in the NexSource yard in Red Deer, next to the generator it is paired with, and travels as one package: the set, the panels, any transfer switch and the cable for each run.
Because the layout is worked out before loading, the drawings and photos you send carry real weight. A camp plan showing the spacing between buildings, or a single-line for the plant, lets the desk count circuits and cut cable to the real distances instead of an estimate.
In winter, flameless heaters can ship on the same order. They run on their own fuel, so they add heat without adding load to the panel. Field service is on (403) 887-4567, 24 hours a day.
Through a Peace Country winter every truck in a camp lot is plugged in overnight. Block heaters and the heat trace on water lines add up to a load that is easy to leave off a list in October and hard to ignore in January, so put them on it from the start.
| Where it is | A street address in town, or the legal land location for a pad, plant or camp, plus any access limits such as road bans. |
| What feeds it | The generator, the plant's own supply or a utility drop: voltage, phase and the largest breaker it can serve. |
| What it feeds | A load list grouped the way it will be circuited — buildings in a camp, systems in a plant, fans and dryers in a yard. |
| How far | Distances measured along the route the cable will take, including road crossings and anything it has to go around. |
| How it switches | One planned changeover, a series of them through a shutdown, or an automatic transfer whenever the supply fails. |
| When | The turnaround window or the season, and how long the site will rely on temporary power. |
Working from a camp's building list? Total each building in kW and the amperage calculator turns it into the amps a panel is rated in.
These are the communities Peace Country distribution goes to most. For anywhere else in the region, send the location, what is being powered and the dates.
It follows the camp's layout more than its size. Buildings in one row can usually share a panel; a kitchen, dry or shop set apart from the sleepers gets its own, so the feed to it stays short. Send the camp plan with the spacing between buildings, and the quote lays the panels and circuits out on it.
Yes — that is what the transfer switch is for. It moves the chosen loads, such as instrument air, controls, heat trace and lighting, onto the rental generator when the plant supply goes down for the work, and back again at the end. Whether it should switch by itself or by hand depends on whether someone will be standing at it.
Everything that runs in the cold and not in summer: block heater plug-ins, heat trace on water and sewer lines, and electric heat in sleepers and trailers. They are easy to leave off a job quoted in the fall, and a panel sized without them can trip on the first cold night.
A licensed electrician, with a permit. Plants and camp operators often have their own contractor on site; where they don't, ask for the connection to be arranged with the rental. Settle it in the quote so the scope is clear before the truck is booked.
They can. During breakup, bans cut the weight allowed on many rural Peace Country roads, which can change what can be moved to a site and when. Give the route and the dates when you ask for the quote, so the delivery plan takes them into account.
It is priced job by job, in a written quote that includes the generator if there is one and the haul from Red Deer. What moves the number is the scale of the layout — how many panels, how much cable, whether there is switching — and how long it stays out. Sizing it up with the desk costs nothing.
Send the site plan or single-line, the load list, the distances and the dates. You get one written quote for the panels, any switching, the cable and delivery, plus the generator and heat if the job needs them.
