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Generator Hire
100kVA – 500kVA Generator Hire Melbourne
The workhorse of our hire fleet: standard and super-silent sets from 100kVA to 500kVA for construction, hospitals, hotels and processing plants. Parallel-ready, crane-placed, refuelled and monitored by our own crew.
Where the fleet gets serious
Six sizes, and the first band where sets can be run in parallel. From 100kVA up you are choosing a power plan, not just a machine.
This is the band most of our hire work sits in. Construction programs and cranes, hotels and supermarkets, hospitals and comms rooms, food processing and utility shutdowns. Sets are held in standard and super-silent build, so the same rating can go onto a fenced site or into a hospital car park without a change of plan.
It is also the first band where the answer can be more than one machine. From 100kVA up, sets can be synchronised to run in series, which gives you redundancy, load bearing, and the ability to take a machine offline for service without dropping the site. On a job that cannot go dark, that matters more than the rating on the canopy.
- Standard or super-silent The same size in the build that suits the site, not the one that suits the yard.
- Parallel-ready Sets synchronised in series for redundancy and load bearing.
- Crane-placed Our own crane trucks lift into rooftops, plant rooms and tight yards.
100–500 The workhorse band
Six sizes in the workhorse band
Pick the size, or give us the load and the site and we will pick it for you. Above 100kVA the right answer is sometimes two machines rather than a bigger one.
100 kVA
- kW
- 80
- Amps
- 139
Where the workhorse fleet starts. Sites, hotels, plant rooms.
100kVA hire 150 kVA- kW
- 120
- Amps
- 209
The long-hire machine, for programs that keep growing.
150kVA hire 200 kVA- kW
- 160
- Amps
- 278
Hospitals, data and comms rooms, food processing, events.
200kVA hire 250 kVA- kW
- 200
- Amps
- 348
Plant-scale hire for utilities and major construction.
250kVA hire 350 kVA- kW
- 280
- Amps
- 487
Shopping centres, plants and utility works, crane-placed.
350kVA hire 500 kVA- kW
- 400
- Amps
- 696
Whole-site capacity, synchronised where it cannot drop.
500kVA hireIndicative figures at 0.8 power factor. The exact rating, outlets and dimensions are confirmed against the set we allocate.
Where the workhorse fleet earns its keep
Construction programs, network shutdowns, hospitals and processing plants. Long-term contracts and short-notice deployments, photographed on real Victorian jobs.
From your call to power on
No triage queue and no handballing. The person who picks up is the person organising your set.
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We size it on the call
Our electricians and generator specialists work out what will carry the load now, and what the connection needs to look like.
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Dispatch and connect
The set goes out on our own float fleet, and our A-grade electricians make the connection and commission it on site.
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We stay accountable
Fuel management, monitoring and on-call technicians until your operation is back on, stable, and no longer needs us.
Outside this band?
Below 100kVA the small band covers events, retail and site sheds. Above 500kVA the fleet runs containerised to 1500kVA.
Small 20–80kVA
Small Generators
Events, concerts, retail stores, household backup. Ultra-quiet, drop-and-go.
- Silent & portable
- Single & three-phase
- Same-day dispatch
Large 800–1500kVA
Large Generators
Industrial plants, shopping centres, food processing. Bulk power, built to run.
- Containerised units
- Parallel-ready
- Onsite commissioning
Trusted Across Victoria
Power for the projects that can’t go dark.
Frequently asked
Which size in the 100kVA – 500kVA range do I need?
Start from the measured load rather than the nameplate on the switchboard, then add what has to start and in what order. Motors, chillers, lifts and refrigeration draw far more on start-up, and a staged start can change the answer by a whole size. Our sizing calculator gives you an indicative figure, but on a job in this band we would rather walk the site and confirm it before anything is quoted.
Can these sets be run in parallel?
Yes, and this is the band where it starts. From 100kVA up our sets can be synchronised to run in series, which gives you three things a single larger machine cannot: redundancy if one set faults, load bearing across the pair, and the ability to take one offline for service without dropping the site.
What is the difference between standard and super-silent?
Same rating, different acoustic build. A super-silent set is the one that goes into a hospital car park, a CBD site, an event or a residential edge, where an open or standard-canopy machine would be a problem. We hold both across this band, so tell us the constraint and we will send the build that fits the site.
How do you get a set this size onto the site?
On our own gear. Tilt trays and crane trucks are in-house, so we lift and place into rooftops, plant rooms, basements and tight yards rather than booking a third party and hoping the window holds. On anything awkward we will inspect the access, the hardstand and the exhaust clearances before delivery day, not on it.
How is fuel handled on a long hire?
We run our own refuelling trucks and put long hires on a scheduled program, so the set never runs dry. Where the burn rate or the site makes that impractical we add bulk storage: industrial fuel cells and field tanks, up to 60,000L systems on the larger jobs.
How long do hires in this band usually run?
These are contracts more often than deliveries. A single shutdown weekend at one end, multi-year site contracts at the other, with monitoring, refuelling and servicing carried through the term by the same crew that commissioned it.
100kVA – 500kVA hire enquiries
Give us the site and the load
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