Mountain West Electric — Florence, MT

Mountain West Electric has been wiring backup power into western Montana homes for nineteen years. Founded in 2007 by a second-generation electrician who grew up on a Bitterroot Valley cattle ranch, our four-person crew specializes in residential GenerLink installations across the Ravalli, Missoula, and Granite county utility service areas — most of which depend on NorthWestern Energy overhead lines that were never built with snow load or wildfire-related PSPS in mind.

We’ve handled GenerLink installs on over three hundred rural properties since 2018, when the device first cleared for NorthWestern’s service territory. Our sweet spot is homes at the end of long driveways on ranch roads — the ones that always lose power first and get restored last. We know which substations feed which canyons, which roads the utility crews skip in January, and which 1970s-era farmhouse panels need a service upgrade before a backup connection is worth wiring.

All work is permitted through the Montana State Electrical Board, every install includes a homeowner walkthrough on the driveway with a portable generator hookup demonstration, and we carry commercial general liability appropriate for ranch and outbuilding work. Mountain weather does what it does — we make sure your well pump, freezer, and propane furnace don’t care.