About Backcountry
Power system experience, brought back to the field.
Backcountry Powerworks was built around a simple idea: sophisticated power systems deserve sophisticated service.
Modern backup and independent power systems combine batteries, solar, generators, inverters, controls, communications, and loads from multiple manufacturers.
Understanding why they aren't working requires more than knowing how to replace a component. It requires understanding how the entire system is supposed to operate.
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Founder
Kody
Founder / Power Systems Specialist
Kody has spent nearly two decades working across solar, off-grid power, battery storage, power electronics, generators, controls, SCADA, and energy infrastructure.
His career started in the field in 2006 installing and commissioning photovoltaic systems. From there, he spent more than six years with SMA America, progressing from field service and hybrid energy systems support into application engineering and senior application engineering.
During that time, Kody commissioned and troubleshot solar and hybrid power systems, supported SMA Sunny Island and off-grid applications, diagnosed complex electrical, controls, communications, and equipment issues, trained customers and technical teams, and worked between U.S. customers and SMA engineering teams in Germany.
His career later expanded into inverter product management, distributed energy and backup power, utility-scale monitoring and SCADA, power plant controls, energy management systems, and large-scale battery energy storage.
Today, that experience spans everything from residential independent power systems to utility-scale energy infrastructure.
Backcountry Powerworks brings that experience back to the field.
Where it started
Built in the field.
Long before battery storage became mainstream, Kody was commissioning and supporting hybrid and off-grid power systems in the field.
During more than six years with SMA America, his work progressed from Hybrid Energy Solutions Service Specialist to Application Engineer and Senior Application Engineer.
That experience included field commissioning, advanced troubleshooting, technical support, customer training, system architecture, and support for SMA Sunny Island and hybrid PV-battery-generator systems.
It created the approach Backcountry still uses today: understand how the system was designed, measure how it is actually operating, and diagnose the difference.
One foundation. Many scales.
From mountain power systems
to grid-scale storage.
Off-grid + Backup
Solar · Battery · Generator · Inverter
Power Electronics
Inverters · Chargers · Hybrid systems
Controls
EMS · SCADA · Communications · Telemetry
Energy Storage
Residential → Commercial → Utility scale
Few power-system problems exist in isolation. Batteries interact with inverters. Generators interact with controls. Solar interacts with charging. Communications influence operation.
Experience across the entire power ecosystem changes how those problems get diagnosed.
Systems we get called for
Off-grid systems that stopped working · Backup power that fails under load · Legacy inverters other shops won't touch · Multi-vendor systems that never integrated correctly · Installations left without ongoing support
The only metric that matters: your system works the way it was designed to work.
20 Years
Solar & power systems
6+ Years
SMA AMERICA SERVICE
Field → Grid Scale
Power-system experience
Experience only matters
if it solves the problem.
Backcountry Powerworks wasn't created to bring utility-scale complexity into your home.
It was created to bring the lessons learned from decades of field service, engineering, controls, storage, and power-system integration to one question:
Why isn't your system working the way it should?