Patent ID: 7855871

Claim:
A generator ready load center, comprising: an enclosure having at least one base pan, a first interior bus structure containing a first set of bus bars secured to a first area of said base pan and connected to a utility power source, a second interior bus structure containing a second set of bus bars secured to a second area of said base pan, a first non-automatic switch coupled to the first interior bus structure, a subfeed circuit breaker coupled to the second interior bus structure, an electrical connection connecting the first non-automatic switch and the subfeed circuit breaker, a second non-automatic switch coupled to the second interior bus structure, a transfer switch connected to the subfeed circuit breaker and the second non-automatic switch, and at least one non-essential circuit secured to said first set of bus bars and at least one essential circuit secured to said second bus bars, and wherein said first set of bus bars and said second set of bus bars are under normal operating conditions powered from the utility power source and in a utility power outage condition only the second interior bus structure is energized.