// Markets · 04 · Distributed Generation
Distributed & Backup Power.
Flare gas, behind-the-meter, microgrid, standby. When the power has to be made where the grid isn't, the generation gets trucked in and set — often where a crane has never worked.
// The Corridor Runs on Power the Grid Can't Reach
Where the grid isn't, the generation gets set.
Across the corridor, the power that matters most is often the power the grid never sees. The Permian and the Rockies produce associated gas faster than pipelines can move it — so it's flared, stranded, or curtailed. Distributed generation turns that liability into dispatchable power: at the wellhead, behind the meter, and into the microgrids feeding remote operations, crypto load, and data campuses that can't wait years for an interconnection.
Add grid-reliability pressure and coal retirements, and backup and standby generation is being deployed across the corridor at a pace the field has never seen. Almost all of it arrives as packaged, skid-mounted units — and almost all of it has to be craned into place, frequently at sites with no road, no pad, and no second chance to mobilize.
// Why the Lift Is the Build
Field power is a mobilization problem first.
Distributed generation doesn't come to a finished plant — it goes to a lease road, a pad scraped out of the caliche, a remote substation. The gensets, flare-gas skids, and turbine packages that make the power all arrive as units that have to be set, often somewhere a crane has to travel hours to reach and work off ground that was ranchland a week ago.
That makes the crane the enabling piece, not the finishing one. Get the machine there, get it set on unimproved ground, and the power project starts.
Miss the mobilization and nothing else on the site can begin.
// What Field Power Demands
Reach and speed, not just tonnage.
Distributed power is won on getting capable iron to hard places, fast:
MOBILITY
Self-Mobilizing Fleet
Road-going all-terrain, rough-terrain, and truck cranes that drive to the site and set up without a support convoy.
GROUND
Unimproved-Site Setup
Bearing-pressure assessment and matting for pads that were pasture last week — the crane as solid as the pick.
PACKAGED
Skid & Genset Setting
Packaged generation units, flare-gas skids, and turbine gensets set at a repeatable field pace.
ASME B30.5
Mobile & Crawler Cranes
The operating and qualification standard governing every machine and operator we send to the field.
// Lifts We Make on a Power Project
Wellhead to microgrid.
// 01
Reciprocating Gensets
Diesel and gas engine-gensets set and staged for prime, standby, and backup power — single units to full farms.
// 02
Flare-Gas Power Packages
Wellhead and behind-the-meter flare-gas generation skids set where the gas is, turning a flare into a feeder.
// 03
Turbine Packages
Packaged and aeroderivative turbine gensets for distributed and peaking duty, set and tied in.
// 04
Microgrid & Storage
Battery energy storage blocks and microgrid gear set to firm up intermittent and off-grid supply.
// 05
Transformers & Switchgear
The step-up transformers and switchgear that tie distributed generation into the load or the grid.
// 06
Balance of Plant & Skids
Treatment skids, tanks, and remote-site modules — the rest of what a field power package needs to run.
// How We Set Power in the Field
Planned for the road and the pad.
1
Access & ground assessment
Route, access, and bearing checked before mobilization — so the crane reaches the pad and stands safely once it's there.
2
Lift & mobilization plan
Crane selection and rigging matched to the packages and the remoteness, with the mobilization treated as part of the lift.
3
Packaged setting
Gensets, flare-gas skids, and turbine packages set on their foundations or piles at a steady field cadence.
4
Electrical tie-in
Transformers, switchgear, and storage set to bring the generation onto the load, the microgrid, or the grid.
5
Documented handoff
Units handed to startup on-position and on-schedule, with the pick records the operator and the EPC expect.
// The Iron That Sets the Gensets
Road-going cranes that get to the pad. Owned.
Field power rewards a different end of the fleet than a turbine hall does — all-terrain, rough-terrain, and truck cranes that self-mobilize down a lease road, set up on unimproved ground, and set a genset without a support convoy trailing behind. For the heavier packages, the lattice and crawler iron is there too.
All of it owned, and staged where the work is — our Midland yard sits in the middle of the Permian's distributed-power boom. Same machines, same crews, one pad to the next.
// The Numbers Behind the Work
1,000 US-TON
Top of the owned fleet
100%
Owned & self-performed
1
Yard in the Permian basin
0
Rental dependency in the field
// Tell Us About the Campus
Got gas to burn or a load to back up??
Send the packages, the site, and how far off the grid it is.
We'll plan the mobilization, set the generation, and tie it in — wherever the pad happens to be.
