Going Without Power - A Thing From the Past

Make power outages a distant memoryYou know it's not just the lights that go out when
Going without power is a thing of the past.there's a power outage. Everything goes. Security
Everyday, generator sets are on the job, performingsystems, computers, phones, heating and cooling
a wide variety of power generation tasks for all kindssystems - everything we depend on to do business.
of end users. From the financial district to theAlthough large scale outages are uncommon, think
warehouse district to our senior assisted livingback to the big Northeast Blackout in August 2003.
facilities, standby power works to keep data centers,Within three minutes 21 power plants in the United
security systems, healthcare facilities andStates shut down, effectively leaving much of New
manufacturing plants operational - all the time.York and some surrounding New England homes and
With today's power generation technology, abusinesses without power, some lost power for
properly engineered backup power system providesmore than a day. And this winter has shown us once
reliability and redundancy, which can include parallelagain what big weather systems like the ice storm in
redundant UPS systems as well as parallel generators.the northeast back in December can do.
The concept of paralleling multiple gensets to produceLengthy power failures can be costly in terms of
greater amounts of power is not new. In fact, it is ainconvenience and extra expenses. That's why savvy
well-proven method commonly used with largebusiness owners know that having a standby power
megawatt units in premium installations. And you cansystem is a proven way to guard against power
put that technology to work to protect yourinterruptions, and a wise investment to make before
business when the power goes out.they experience problems.