American Generator Solutions is based at 1921 N Cedar St in Mishawaka. Not a franchise desk, not a regional office with a Mishawaka phone number - the shop, the trucks and the four people who work here are in this town.
That matters more than it sounds when your power goes out. When we say we will be there, we are coming from across town rather than from another state, and the technician who arrives is the one who installed your unit.
St. Joseph County is not a quiet corner of the grid. In the April 2025 storm system that put more than 53,000 Indiana customers in the dark, St. Joseph County had the most outages of any county in the state - over 20,000. Straight-line winds came through again in June and August 2026, and again in April 2026, when more than 1,400 South Bend-area customers lost power in a single event.
The pattern is consistent: it is wind bringing trees down onto lines, and it happens in every season. Mature tree cover on the older residential streets is lovely eleven months of the year and a liability during the twelfth.
We are a Kohler Platinum Dealer and a Briggs & Stratton dealer. A standby generator sits outside on a pad, wired into your panel through an automatic transfer switch, running on natural gas or propane. When the utility drops, it starts by itself and carries the house within seconds - whether you are home, asleep or away.
We do not install or service Generac. There are plenty of Generac dealers in Michiana and we will point you to one rather than take work we are not the right shop for.
With a free visit of about half an hour. We list your major appliances, open your panel and look at what is really on it, and talk through where the unit can sit given your gas service and your lot. You get a written quote by email afterwards and a follow-up call the next day.
A home generator plus installation typically starts at around $8,000, moving with the size of the unit and what the install involves. Financing is available through EnergyPlus and the National Energy Improvement Fund.
Being based here means Mishawaka, South Bend and Granger are our shortest drives, but we cover roughly ninety minutes in every direction - across St. Joseph, Elkhart, Marshall, Kosciusko, LaPorte, Starke and Fulton counties, and over the line into southwest Michigan.
A generator is an engine, and an engine that sits unused for a year needs looking after. We offer maintenance on a three-year service agreement at a discounted rate, or will-call service at $100 more per visit if you would rather not commit. Either way the technician who turns up is one of ours.
Every service visit covers the oil and filters, the battery and charging system - which is the single most common reason a standby unit fails to start - the transfer switch, and a run under load. We also confirm the self-exercise cycle is still running, because a generator that has quietly stopped testing itself is a generator nobody is checking.
John Gemmer founded Gemmer Electric here in 2005 after years as an electrician, and he spent twenty years as a fireman alongside it. He still runs the assessments himself, so the person sizing your generator is the owner rather than a salesperson on commission. There are four of us. That is deliberate.
Gemmer Electric has done commercial and industrial electrical work in this area since 2005, and Kohler has now approved us as a light industrial dealer. If you run a facility in Mishawaka with three-phase service and loads that cannot simply stop, that is work we specify and install too - see light industrial generators.
Call (574) 252-0660 or request a quote. We will come out, look at your home and tell you honestly what it would take.
Our team is standing by to discuss your project and provide a no-obligation estimate.
