Off-grid power, engineered for comms sites.
A communications site with dead power is just a very tall lawn ornament. We design and prime-contract the solar-battery-generator systems that keep remote sites alive through winter, storms and nobody-checking-for-weeks.
Not a solar dealer — a comms-site power contractor
Generic solar companies size systems for houses: predictable daily cycles, someone home to notice problems, a grid to fall back on. Communications sites are different. The load is 24/7, flat and non-negotiable — radios don't get weekends. The site is unmanned, often hours from the nearest road. And when power fails, nobody calls to tell you; you find out when the coverage complaints start.
We design for that reality: solar plus battery sized for the worst month of the year (December, not July), generator backup for the long dark stretches, and remote monitoring so you know the battery state before it becomes a problem. One prime contractor owns the whole system — structure, power, comms load — so there's nobody to blame when the site goes dark at 2 a.m. in February.
What the systems look like
Every site gets sized from its actual load, measured or honestly estimated — radios, backhaul, monitoring gear, any site lighting or cameras. Then we build the recipe:
- Solar array sized for winter sun angles on the coast, with tilt and snow-shed design that accounts for real weather, not brochure weather.
- Battery bank with enough autonomy days to ride out the cloudy stretches — typically 3–5 days of load with no sun, site-dependent.
- Generator backup — propane or diesel — with auto-start, for the weeks when the sky just won't cooperate.
- Monitoring and alarming so you get a text or dashboard alert at 40% battery, not a dead site at 0%.
- Weather-hardened everything — enclosures, grounding and cable management built for salt air, driving rain and the occasional branch.
Who buys this
WISPs with hilltop sites that eat truck rolls every winter. Remote lodges and camps running their own backhaul. Industrial sites — forestry, mining, hydro — with telemetry that has to work where the grid doesn't reach. First Nations building independent infrastructure. Anyone with a tower or shelter that's currently held together by a generator someone has to visit.
If you're building a new tower, power is designed as part of the build — see small tower construction. This page is for existing sites, new standalone power systems, and upgrades to systems that keep letting you down.
Licensed electricians do the panel-tied work
We prime-contract the system and manage the build. Any work that ties into panels, services or grid connections is done by hired licensed electricians — that's a hard rule, not a preference. DC-side solar and battery assembly is our trade; AC-side work is theirs. The division of labour is clean, documented and code-compliant.
Field note — 2 a.m. in February
The call about a dead site never comes at noon in July. It comes at 2 a.m. in February, when the batteries have been sliding for a week and nobody knew. That's why remote monitoring and low-battery alarming are standard on every system we build — not an upsell. I'd rather get the text at 40% than the call at zero.
Field note — a dark site is a blind site
Unmanned sites have cameras and monitoring for a reason — remote hilltops get visited by people who shouldn't be there, and copper and batteries walk away. When site power dies, the cameras die with it, and a blind site is an unprotected one. Power reliability at a comms site isn't just uptime — it's the security layer. We build it like it matters, because it does.
Coverage
Commercial prime-contractor coverage is the whole confirmed region: all of Vancouver Island, the Southern Gulf Islands, Sunshine Coast, Texada and the Discovery Islands — including boat-access west coast sites. Remote is the whole point of this service.
How do you know a site needs help before it dies?
Remote monitoring with low-battery alarming is standard on every system we build — not an upsell. You get warned at defined thresholds and the generator auto-starts at its own, which turns the 2 a.m. February call about a dead site into a calm afternoon check-in instead.
Common questions
How many cloudy days can these systems handle?
That's the sizing question, and it depends on your load and budget. A typical design carries 3–5 days of full load with zero solar input; the generator covers anything beyond that. We size to your site's worst month and your tolerance for generator runtime — and we show you the math.
Can you upgrade my existing site's power?
Yes — that's a common job. We audit the existing system (panels, batteries, charge controllers, wiring), identify the weak links, and upgrade what's actually failing. Sometimes that's a battery bank replacement; sometimes the whole DC system needs redesigning. The audit tells us which.
Do I really need a generator, or can solar + batteries do it?
On the BC coast in December, you need the generator. The math doesn't work without it unless you massively oversize the array and bank — which costs more than the generator. The generator is the cheapest insurance in the system, and with auto-start and remote monitoring, it just runs when needed.
Will the system alert me before it dies?
Yes — remote monitoring with low-battery alarming is standard on every system we build, not an upsell. You get warned at defined thresholds, and the generator auto-starts at its own threshold. A silent system is a failed system.
What about winter access for maintenance?
We design for minimum site visits: oversized autonomy, remote diagnostics, and components chosen for reliability over price. And we offer maintenance contracts that bundle the tower and the power system into one scheduled visit — one truck roll, both systems checked.
Site going dark every winter?
Tell us the load, the location and what the current system does (or doesn't do). We'll audit it or design the replacement — with the math shown.