Moon River GeneratorsWhole-house standby power · Savannah & the coastal counties
Savannah · Pooler · Richmond Hill · Rincon · Wilmington Island · Georgetown

Sixty thousand Chatham County homes learned what dark feels like. Yours can opt out.

When Helene rolled through in September 2024, most of this county lost power — some streets for an hour, others for the better part of a week. A whole-house standby generator notices the outage before you do, starts itself, and carries the air conditioning, the refrigerator, the well pump, and the wifi until the grid comes back. We plan it, permit it, and install it.

Three things we do, in the order homeowners need them

A standby generator is a project — a load calculation, a gas connection, a permit, a pad, and a startup test — not a box you carry home. Here is how the project breaks down.

Standby Installation

The full project: site visit, concrete pad, fuel line, automatic transfer switch, Chatham or Effingham or Bryan county permits, and a commissioning run before we leave. Most systems land between $6,000 and $11,000 installed; larger whole-home setups run higher.

Pricing & what's included

Sizing Guide

The kilowatt question decides everything downstream — cost, fuel draw, and whether your AC runs during an August outage. Essentials-only coverage starts near 10kW; true whole-home for a typical Savannah house is usually 18–26kW.

Find your kW range

Annual Maintenance

A standby unit that sits untouched for two years has a habit of quitting three hours into the storm it was bought for. Yearly oil, battery, and load-test service keeps the machine as ready as the day it was commissioned.

What a service visit covers

Why backup power stopped being optional here

Savannah is an evacuation-zone county with a growing habit of close calls — Matthew, Irma, Dorian, Idalia, Debby, Helene, each one dragging lines down somewhere in the metro. But the hurricanes are only the headline. The quieter truth is that coastal Georgia loses power in ordinary weeks too: afternoon thunderstorms off the marsh, a squirrel in a substation, a pine limb across a feeder in the Effingham woods. In a Savannah July, a dead AC is not an inconvenience — for the very young, the very old, and anyone on refrigerated medication, it is a genuine safety problem by the second afternoon.

Meanwhile the metro keeps compounding — roughly 432,000 people now, pulled in by the port's five million containers a year, the Hyundai Metaplant ramp-up, and the Amazon operation in Pooler. New subdivisions mean more homes hanging off the same feeders, and more families who work remote and can't shrug off a two-day outage the way a 1995 household could.

Lightning forking through dark storm clouds
Not every outage gets a name. The feeder goes down either way.

The calm-month advantage

Here is the honest seasonal math of this business: the week after a named storm, everyone wants a generator, and lead times stretch — units back-ordered, installers booked out, permit offices swamped. The smart play is the opposite calendar. Book the site visit in the quiet stretch, get the pad poured and the unit commissioned on a mild week, and spend storm season already covered. We keep maintenance customers exercised and ready on the same logic: preparation is cheap in the calm and expensive in the panic.

One name, one river

The Moon River is the tidal stretch south of town that Johnny Mercer made famous, and it seemed right for a company whose whole job is keeping Savannah's lights glowing against the dark. That's the extent of the story — the rest of this site is about kilowatts.

Avenue of live oaks draped in Spanish moss near Savannah
The canopy that shades Savannah's squares also finds its power lines.

The storm-readiness short list

What a prepared coastal-Georgia house has settled before June 1 — generator owners and everyone else alike.

  • Backup power decided. Standby unit installed and exercised, or an honest plan for where the family goes when the grid drops.
  • Fuel source confirmed. Natural-gas service verified with the utility, or the LP tank filled before hurricane season, not during it.
  • Transfer switch tested. A generator that can't hand off the load automatically is a lawn ornament during an evacuation.
  • Service date on the calendar. Oil, battery, and a load test inside the last twelve months — our annual visit covers all three.
  • Panel labeled. You, and anyone house-sitting, should know which circuits stay live and which don't.
  • Utility numbers saved. Georgia Power outage line in the phone before the night you need it by candlelight.

Where we install

Savannah proper plus the growth corridors around it — each of these pages covers what generator projects actually look like in that town:

The grid will blink again. Decide now what happens next.

Site visits across Savannah, Pooler, Richmond Hill, Rincon, Wilmington Island & Georgetown. Mon–Fri 7:30am–5:30pm — and in a storm week, we flex the schedule.

Call (912) 454-6565
Before the next outage: (912) 454-6565