Proud to Power Licking County: Reliable Kohler and Cummins Generators

September 10, 2026

Tree-lined Licking County Ohio residential street with a home standby generator on a concrete pad

Licking County is home—and it’s the community we’re proud to keep the lights on for. From the historic streets of Granville to the neighborhoods of Newark and Heath, the growing subdivisions in Pataskala, and the lake homes around Buckeye Lake and Hebron, this is where we live and work. When a storm rolls through and the power goes out across the county, our neighbors shouldn’t have to sit in the cold and dark waiting on a utility truck. That’s the whole reason Banner Generators of Central Ohio exists.

We install and service whole-home standby generators throughout Licking County, and we do it with equipment we actually believe in: Kohler for homes and Cummins for commercial and light-industrial power. Backed by 60+ years of Banner Electric, we bring the same standard of work to a Granville farmhouse as we do to a Newark storefront. Here’s why reliable backup power matters so much in this part of Ohio, and why we stand behind the brands we install.

Why Backup Power Matters in Licking County

Licking County sits in a stretch of Central Ohio that gets a little of everything—summer thunderstorms and the occasional derecho, spring severe weather, and hard winter ice storms that load the lines until they break. Add in a mix of established towns and rural roads, and you get a service area where outages are common and restoration isn’t always fast.

A wide range of storm risks: The same county sees severe summer wind, spring storms, and winter ice—each one capable of taking down power for hours or days.
Rural stretches restore slower: Homes on county roads and outside the denser parts of Newark and Heath often wait longer for crews to reach downed lines.
Well and septic homes need power: Across rural Licking County, no electricity means no well pump and no water at all until the grid returns—a generator keeps the water flowing.
Basements and sump pumps: With the county’s mix of terrain and rainfall, a dead sump pump during an outage is how a finished basement floods.
A growing county: As more families and businesses move into the Pataskala and Johnstown corridors, dependable power is part of what makes a home or a business run.

Whether you’re in Granville, Newark, Heath, Pataskala, Hebron, Buckeye Lake, Johnstown, Utica, or Hanover, the story is the same: when the power goes, a properly sized standby generator turns a stressful, expensive outage into something you barely notice.

Kohler for the Home: Reliable Whole-Home Standby Power

For Licking County homeowners, we install Kohler whole-home standby generators. Kohler has built engines and power systems for generations, and their residential standby line is engineered to do one thing exceptionally well: keep a house running, automatically, no matter the weather.

Here’s what a Kohler standby means for your home:

Automatic operation: When the power drops, the generator senses it and starts within seconds through an automatic transfer switch—no cords, no manual starting, whether you’re home or away.
Real whole-home capacity: Sized correctly, a Kohler unit runs your furnace, well pump, sump pump, refrigerator, and the outlets and lighting you need to live normally through an outage.
Cold-weather dependability: Kohler standby units are built to start reliably in the freezing conditions that cause the county’s longest outages.
Quiet, weather-tough enclosures: Corrosion-resistant enclosures stand up to Ohio ice, snow, and heat while running quietly in the background.
Self-testing peace of mind: A weekly self-test confirms the system is healthy long before you ever need it.

As a Factory-Authorized Kohler dealer, we size, install, and service these systems the way Kohler intends—so both the workmanship and the warranty hold up for the long run.

Cummins for Business: Commercial and Light-Industrial Power

Homes aren’t the only thing that grinds to a halt when the grid goes down. For Licking County businesses—storefronts, offices, shops, and light-industrial facilities—an outage means lost revenue, spoiled inventory, idle equipment, and customers turned away at the door. For those commercial applications, we install Cummins standby power.

Cummins is a name businesses trust for serious, continuous-duty power, and it’s our commercial standard because it delivers where it counts:

Built for demanding loads: Cummins commercial standby systems are engineered to carry heavier, more complex electrical loads than a typical home—refrigeration, HVAC, machinery, and critical systems.
Keeps the doors open: Automatic backup power means a business can keep operating—or safely shut down and protect inventory—when the surrounding area loses power.
Protects what’s on the line: For businesses with refrigerated stock, sensitive equipment, or data and security systems, backup power isn’t a luxury—it’s the difference between a normal day and a costly one.
Scalable solutions: Commercial power needs vary widely, and Cummins offers a range of standby systems to match the size and criticality of the operation.

Whether it’s a Newark retail block, a Heath office, or a light-industrial shop along the county’s growing corridors, we help business owners choose and install the right Cummins system for their operation—and we back the work with the same experience we bring to every job.

Why the Right Brand for the Right Job Matters

Some contractors install whatever they can get their hands on. We don’t work that way. We match the equipment to the application—Kohler for homes, Cummins for commercial—because a home standby generator and a commercial power system are asked to do very different things.

A residential Kohler unit is optimized for a household’s loads, quiet neighborhood operation, and cold-weather reliability. A commercial Cummins system is built for heavier, continuous-duty demands and the kind of loads a business puts on it. Putting the right platform on the right job is how you get a system that performs for years instead of one that’s fighting its own limits from day one. That judgment—knowing what to install and how to size it—is exactly what six decades of electrical work teaches you.

Backed by 60+ Years of Banner Electric

Banner Generators of Central Ohio isn’t a startup that showed up when generators got popular. We’re the Central Ohio generator arm of Banner Electric, a family electrical company with more than 60 years of experience doing the work right. That heritage shows up in the parts of a generator project you don’t see in a brochure:

Correct sizing: We calculate your actual loads instead of guessing, so your system carries what it needs to without being oversized.
Code-compliant installation: Permits, gas connection, transfer switch, and electrical inspection—handled properly, the first time.
Clean, professional work: The kind of installation you’re proud to have on the side of your home or business.
Service that stays local: We’re your neighbors. When you need maintenance or support down the road, we’re right here in Central Ohio.

Not sure how large a system your home needs? Our generator sizing guide walks through the math in plain language, and a free on-site assessment takes the guesswork out entirely.