Event Power Distribution in Vancouver & the Lower Mainland
Valley Tech supplies and runs event power distribution across Vancouver, the Fraser Valley, and the wider Lower Mainland — generators, distribution panels, cabling, and on-site crew, planned alongside the audio, lighting, video, and staging so the show has reliable power from load-in to teardown. We scope the total load from what sound, lighting, video, and the site itself draw, then design what feeds what and where the cabling runs, rather than guessing on the day. For festivals, outdoor sites, and street closures with no power in the walls, we bring towable diesel generators from 25 to 70 kVA and distribution from 50-amp panels up to 200-amp three-phase Camlok service, sized to run the stage, vendors, and site infrastructure for the whole event. Where a site needs a permit for temporary event power, we coordinate the electrical permitting through our licensed electrical subcontractor.
Power is planned in with the rest of your production
A generator on a truck isn’t a power plan. Sound, lighting, video, and the site itself each draw differently, and the total load decides everything downstream — what feeds what, where the distribution sits, how the cable is run.
We scope that alongside the rest of the build: what the show actually draws, what the venue or site can supply, and where the gaps are — so power is designed around your production, not guessed at on the day.
Clean distribution, cabling, and a crew that owns it
From the source, power has to reach every position — stage, front-of-house, lighting, vendors — without overloading a leg or leaving cable where people walk. We handle the distribution and cabling, matted and routed to keep the site safe and tidy, as one line item in your production plan alongside AV, lighting, and staging.
Where tying into a venue’s electrical service is the right call, we coordinate that with the venue; where it isn’t, we bring the power ourselves. Either way, experienced crew stay with the power for the length of the event — not just plug it in and leave.
For sites where temporary event power needs a permit, we coordinate the electrical permitting through our licensed electrical subcontractor — so temporary power is properly permitted, not sorted out on the morning of.
Festivals, outdoor sites, and anywhere the power isn’t already there
Ballrooms usually have power in the walls. Fields, parking lots, parks, and street closures don’t — and that’s where an event power plan earns its keep. As part of the production, we bring generators and full distribution for outdoor festivals, concerts, and temporary sites, sized to run the stage, the vendors, and the site for the whole event.
It’s the same job at a corporate activation or a hybrid broadcast that has outgrown the room’s circuits — clean power, delivered and run alongside the rest of your production.
Event power distribution, answered
Do you just drop off a generator, or actually plan the power for our event?
We plan it, not just deliver it — sound, lighting, video, and the site itself each draw differently, and we scope the total load, what the venue or site can supply, and where the gaps are, so power is designed around your production rather than guessed at on the day.
What if our site doesn’t have any power at all — a field, a parking lot, a street closure?
That’s exactly where an event power plan earns its keep. We bring generators and full distribution for outdoor festivals, concerts, and temporary sites, sized to run the stage, vendors, and the site for the whole event, not just soundcheck.
Do we need a permit for temporary event power, and do you handle that?
Where a site needs a permit for temporary event power, we coordinate the electrical permitting through our licensed electrical subcontractor, so temporary power on site is properly permitted.
Will you tie into the venue’s existing electrical service, or bring your own power?
Whichever is the right call for the site — where tying into the venue’s electrical service makes sense, we coordinate that with the venue; where it doesn’t, we bring the power ourselves.
Is someone staying with the power system through the event, or is it unattended once it’s running?
Experienced crew stay with the power for the length of the event — not just plug it in and leave.
Can you handle power for a corporate activation that’s outgrown a venue’s circuits, not just outdoor festivals?
Yes — it’s the same job at a corporate activation or a hybrid broadcast that’s outgrown the room’s circuits as it is at an outdoor festival: clean power, delivered and run alongside the rest of your production.
Planning an event that needs power on site?
Talk to us early — power is easiest to get right when it’s planned in with the rest of your production, before the site layout and the production plan are locked.