Standby power and backup in
Gabriola Island.
Kohler standby generators with automatic transfer switches — sized to the property, fuel-routed to your service, brought onto the home automation platform.
An hour from a working demonstration of the platform.
Gabriola sits a 20-minute ferry ride off Nanaimo, which makes it one of the most accessible Gulf Islands from a service perspective — the team can be on site the same morning we leave the Boxwood Road centre. The architectural mix runs from modest custom homes to significant waterfront builds along the south and east coasts. Wenner runs Gabriola projects on the same in-house full-service model as the rest of the mid-Island.
Standby Power & Backup.
Vancouver Island's power grid is a known hazard during winter storms. Wenner's primary backup-power practice is Kohler standby generator installation — automatic transfer switches, fuel routing (natural gas or propane), sound-attenuated enclosures, and integration into the home's Crestron or Lutron platform. Battery storage (Enphase) is deployed on selected projects where it's the right fit; solar PV array installation is delivered by specialist partners on projects where solar is part of the brief, with Wenner providing the integration coordination.
- Kohler standby generators — sized to whole-home or critical-load coverage.
- Automatic transfer switches with seamless cutover during outages.
- Fuel routing — natural gas where available, propane on Gulf Islands and rural acreages.
- Integration into the home's Crestron or Lutron platform — visible status on the touch panels.
- Enphase IQ Battery integration on selected projects; solar PV via specialist partners.
- Coordinated with the electrical service under Wenner's BC electrical contractor licence (LEL0003189).
Pre-engineered off-site. Installed on-site by our team.
Every Wenner project follows the same disciplined workflow. The system is pre-engineered at our design centre well before it ships to site, so the on-site phase is dramatically faster, more predictable, and more reliable.
- Rack builds and pre-engineering at our design centre. Equipment racks, control processors, network gear, and bespoke programming are assembled, configured, and tested at our Nanaimo or Victoria centre before anything ships to site — the system is essentially functional before it leaves our hands.
- Wenner team on site for the critical phases. Rough-in, final install, commissioning, and testing are handled directly by the Wenner integration team.
- One accountable party. Wenner remains the single technical and management authority on the project, in close coordination with the architect, the interior designer, the builder, and the homeowner.
- The same long-term relationship. Same coordination during construction, same commissioning standard at handover, same aftercare through WennerCare.
The same workflow delivers Wenner projects far beyond Vancouver Island — most recently a completed residence in Mexico City, and an active project in Oregon through our sister company Intuitiv Spaces.
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