“Our relationship with Thompson Caterpillar has been great over the years. My father worked with them, my older brother worked with them, and now myself. We have six generators at this location, all for emergency backup power, ranging from a 3412 down to a C6. Pricing has always been very fair. They’ve always been there for me. They’ve done everything I’ve needed. I feel like we have a great relationship.”
– Cale Young, Vice President of Young’s Plant Farm
“Golf courses don’t have the power grid on site to host a large event like this. When you have hospitality tents, restroom trailers, cooking tents that are brought in. They aren’t set up with the infrastructure to support that so we have to come in and provide the power to hit those spots.”
“We’ve been doing the Regent tradition tournament for years now … As of today we’re supplying roughly 1700 kilowatts of power and miles of cable. We have generators scattered throughout the grounds ranging from 35 kW to to 30 kW. Without Thompson power systems, this would just be a golf course and the tournament would not be as successful as it is and it’s nice to know that Thompson power takes pride in their work and takes good care of our course while they’re out here and takes care of all our needs.”
– Brody Cornelius, Superintendent at Greystone Country Club
“After hurricane Michael, we had pretty severe line damage but between here and the next substation up. In order to get power back as quickly as possible, we decided to install the CAT generators. It’s been running 24/7 and it has been very defendable. If it wasn’t for the CAT generators, we wouldn’t be supplying people power right now from these substations. CAT genset is the power for the community right now. Installing them and getting people’s power back, even seeing some street lights come back on, and they give a little bit of hope and where there’s just complete devastation in a lot of places.”
– Lanie Sells, Substation Operation & Maintenance, Power South Energy Cooperative
“We’re service providers for disaster relief. A lot of times, we’re here when the wind is still blowing, so we’re able to move in rather quickly and provide generation for everything from residential to commercial and government entities. We like to consider ourselves contributing to the resiliency of the community, and what I mean by resiliency is withstanding a storm like this and not only withstanding storms, but recovering from them. The power generation that we’ve been able to provide in the first week and a half of this has been substantial. It’s allowed individuals, institutions and communities to come back online.”
– Larry Harrington, CEO and Owner, Trans4Fed
“We have to have a refrigerated building and you have to have the equipment that runs 24/7 and, when the storm came, we didn’t know it was gonna be a cat5. We’re sitting there with no power no generator so I called CAT and they said we’ll have you fixed right here and they sent me a thousand kW CAT to help me get back on our feet. It ran beautiful, came here on time, got us back up and running. We got our freezer back going we were making ice.”
– Eugene Raffield, Owner, Raffield Fisheries
“You have to keep shrimp cold or they’re going to go bad. On-site, we have probably around 700,000 pounds in the freezer. At the moment we had about 48 hours to respond. Either get power back on and get it cold or truck it out. Trucking out became a logistics nightmare because the roads were not open and I could see clearly that the only way out was the generator power… Having the generator power definitely saved about five million dollars worth of product.”
– Ed Wood, President, Wood Fisheries, Inc.
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