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How can businesses prepare backup power systems for long outages?

Planning for extended power outages requires more than selecting the right generator.

How can businesses prepare for extended power outages?

Preparing for an extended power outage requires more than installing a commercial generator. Businesses should develop a comprehensive backup power strategy that includes fuel planning, critical...

Most Backup Generators Spend Their Lives Waiting

When people think about generator maintenance, they often picture a machine working hard during a power outage. In reality, that's only a small part of a standby generator's life.

What happens when a commercial power outage occurs?

When a commercial power outage occurs, an automatic transfer switch (ATS) detects the loss of utility power, signals the generator to start, transfers the facility's electrical load to generator...

Businesses prepare their industrial generators for hurricane and storm season by performing proactive inspections, testing the automatic transfer switch (ATS), verifying battery health, evaluating fuel quality, exercising the generator under load,...

When should a commercial generator be replaced?

A commercial generator should be replaced when it can no longer provide reliable backup power, repair costs begin to outweigh replacement costs, replacement parts become difficult to source, or the...

What Backup Power System Does an Industrial Facility Need?

When utility power fails, businesses rely on their backup power systems to perform immediately and reliably. 

When a facility loses utility power, the difference between a short interruption and a serious operational failure often comes down to one thing: how well the facility understands its emergency power system. For many facility managers and operations...

When businesses think about backup power, the first focus is usually the generator itself. What size should we buy? How much power do we need? What fuel type makes sense for our facility?