ElecComm Power Services Blog

We don’t often give electricity much thought until we don’t have it. In these situations, especially in business, consider Emergency Power Supply System (EPSS) rentals.

When commercial electricity is unavailable, when commercial electricity is difficult to supply, and when an emergency generator is offline ElecComm Power is the EPSS supplier in New England and New York.
Companies and organizations that need emergency power supply services need to consider generator rentals.

When comparing generator rental prices, be sure you are comparing apples to apples. The cost includes: the type of fuel, pickup or delivery, the length of the contract, the voltage, and any special features. Keep in mind that a unit that uses natural gas, or a natural gas and diesel mixture, instead of pure diesel will be more economical. When the equipment is needed long-term your best option is a lease agreement instead of a rental contract.

Keep in mind too that the size or type of the unit you need is entirely dependant on your voltage requirements. A unit that is too small can result in power failure or unsafe situations; a unit that is too large is just a waste of money. Be sure to consult with ElecComm Power when considering your generator needs.

There are many uses for chillers and many reasons why you or your business would need to rent one. ElecComm Power offers a wide variety of industrial chiller rental options. Ranging from 10 to 1000 tons, our fleet of chillers can satisfy your rental chiller requirements.

If you have a restaurant and your chiller has broken down, you are coordinating an outdoor festival or event, perhaps a seasonal snack shack requires refrigeration for only part of the year, or perhaps you’d like to “try before you buy” in order to be sure that the chiller your are considering purchasing meets all of your requirements before you commit to a large capital expenditure.

Here is an example of how ElecComm Power helped out at an Air Force Testing Facility with portable rental chillers:

EPS was chosen to provide full turnkey operation and installation of 150 ton chiller, pump and 320kW generator for an Air Force Testing facility. ElecComm’s temporary chiller system and design easily and adequately provided customer with 150 tons of chill water at 36 degrees. The testing of Air Force equipment went smoothly and flawlessly.

A 25 foot section of wall collapsed in Dorchester Saturday morning.

The unexpected collapse took down electrical lines, knocking out power to the adjacent Venezia Restaurant.

The warehouse wall collapsed in the wrong direction during the demolition in the Port Norfolk section of Dorchester bringing down power lines but causing no injuries, according to the Boston Fire Department.

Venezia Waterfront Restaurant at 20 Ericsson St., is adjacent to the one-story wood warehouse being demolished.

NSTAR brought in an emergency generator to power up the restaurant which had a large function scheduled.  The rental generator was provided by ElecComm Power Services in Hyde Park.

An employee at Venezia Waterfront Restaurant said the restaurant power was restored by the rental generator and was open for business while NSTAR repaired the lines. Venezia was also able to host its three scheduled functions because of the emergency generator despite the surprise loss of power.

In a number of cases, it is an economically sound idea to rent a generator rather than purchase one. And the uses for rental generators span all industries.

Special Events:
If you are running special events on a rotating basis at various locations it makes sense to order rental generators at the new location rather than carting one all over the place. Another obvious advantage is not having to pay for maintenance in case there's a breakdown.

Construction:
Additionally, in construction work, if you are starting on a new site, a rental generator can be delivered to the site. By renting at the start of each job, you save on capital expenses and maintenance, as well as saving yourself the trouble of storing and moving a generator.

Movie Production:
If your business is movie production, there are generators for that specifically that are very quiet.

Telecom:
There are tower power generators available to rent if you are in the telecom sector.

As far as the various sizes of generators, you can get rental generators for different types of applications with varying power outputs. You can hire generators that deliver 25 kW to 125 kW output and those that can deliver between 20kW to 2MWpower output. While the rental generators up to 125 kW rating have electronic governors, the 2000 kW output generator is the quietest generator set you would come across.

ElecComm Power Services rents generator sets to a wide array of businesses from gas stations and supermarkets, to office buildings, production facilities, and hospitals, all across New England. Even local Utility companies sub-contract generator set rentals when their own fleets are not large enough to supply the quantity of units needed during major natural disasters.

Flooding, tornados, and ice storms across New England have all seen ElecComm generator sets, producing anywhere from 15 or 20 kW, to 1,500 and 2,000 kW. Rental generators help numerous companies and many industries restore power and continue business as usual.

Emergency rental generators supply power under difficult conditions for any length of time, hours, days, or weeks, and they are very reliable.

Well, hurricane season has officially started. Now we don’t often see hurricanes that are too bad in Massachusetts, but we don’t often see massive, destructive tornadoes either, or hail storms in June.  So to kick off hurricane season, we would like to remind you to not get caught unprepared in the event of an unexpected power loss.

When a major storm knocks your power out, emergency generators will keep you up and running and your lights on.

Last week in Greenwich, CT customers were left powerless from a series of CL&P system failures which began with a lightning strike last Wednesday. Repairs were waylaid by two more lightning strikes at the Cos Cob substation on Thursday night and increased demand in the suffocating early summer heat and humidity Friday evening caused further system failures.

During the height of the outages, the town used emergency generators to operate its sewage treatment plants and private customers, including Greenwich Hospital, switched to rented generators. According to Greenwich Hospital spokesman George Pawlush, the hospital used two rental generators for nearly 21 hours between Thursday and Saturday.

Portable rental generators can help you and your business continue to do business even with unexpected power failure. Often time, loss of power is catastrophic for a business, hospital, or municipal building. Call ElecComm for more information.

If you are running an industry, managing a large office building, a hotel or are in charge of a hospital, you should expect unannounced emergencies. Theses emergencies can take any form, including those concerning your air-conditioner suddenly failing on a hot day. For these emergencies you need to consider air conditioner rental.

Air conditioner rental could also be used when running a special event or venue, such as an exhibition or outdoor charity event, for a week or two. Obviously, air conditioner rental is a better option than purchasing this equipment for short term use.

During an unseasonable warm heat wave, when your air conditioning system is working too hard, a supplemental AC system could be rented in order to air condition entire warehouses, office spaces and entertainment venues.

Rental air conditioning units is available in a very wide range of capacities. Air conditioners can be rented for any length of time from one day or a season to several months. ElecComm Power Services can provide a wide range of air conditioning units, ranging from the standard office cooling units powered by a normal 110-volt outlet to an 80-ton heavy-duty industrial package. These industrial units can be used for emergency, planned and contingency cooling projects.

Possibly, you may need a generator to run the air conditioning unit. The generators range in size from 20kW to 2MW. These are portable diesel sets and can be provided to you as a turnkey solution to your air conditioning requirement.

You can actually power your business on rented generators. Generator rentals are very economical as are rentals for heaters, chillers and load banks. It's not only emergencies, such as a power deficit, that create the need to rent a generator. Economically, in the case of a special event venue that would run for several days or a month it would only make sense to rent a generator rather than purchase one. A generator can be rented for virtually any specification and for any conceivable task and the terms are easy.

There are many situations and occasions when you may need a generator for rent. Such situations are based on your business. An office building may need a rental generator as a backup. Or, in the case of a hospital or a hotel, a generator is often needed as backup support. An ICU may need a generator to function as the main source of power supply during natural disasters or the in an environment where there is the potential to lose power since there can be no risk a power failure. Construction sites often require generators for hire as well since there may not be a ready power source at the location of the job site. Several small and large industries require generator rentals to keep them going on a regular basis such as the movie industry or the tower power generators for the telecom industry.

Rental generators are available in the power output range between 20kW to 2MW. These are fitted with systems for both emergency and safety shut down systems and can survive a hostile environment or inclement weather conditions.

Business owners rent emergency power generators for emergency electric power outages, to supply power within a planned project which would normally compromise commercial power, and most frequently, to meet a short lived rise in energy demand. ElecComm Power is a supplier of back-up generators. In addition to leasing electrical generator equipment, we lease other electrical equipment as well, such as load banks, fuel tanks, transformers and other power cable and distribution panels and accessories.

Load Banks are normally utilized to test power sources to make sure their appropriate function under the true to life conditions that load banks duplicate through making a power load and employing it to a power source. There are a number types of load banks. Electronic load banks, whose power may be developed for exact circuits, so they are ideal for checking circuit breakers, fuse boxes, and robotic transfer switches; resistive, which take out equal amounts of energy from an operating-system, and used for testing power generators; capacitive, which create an increased power factor, and are perfect for testing systems that have horizontal loads; and inductive, which simulate the vitality used by numerous building elements at the same time, and so are perfect for testing voltage regulators and generators.

If you need generators for more than two days, you may want to rent additional diesel powered fuel tanks to power them. ElecComm Power Services provides safe and efficient fuel tanks. We offer single-walled or double-walled skidded tanks. They are available in the following sizes: 500-1000 gallons.

While renting major electric power equipment, it is also common to lease the accessories that are used with them, such as cable ramps, load share panels, cable bins, and cable T's. Although electricity accessories are easy to come by, renting them with the equipment you need ends up costing your business less money.

Purchasing a generator could turn out to be an unaffordable thing to do for many people. Yes, it may come as a surprise to you but there are some very high-quality and powerful generators whose price may reach or even be over $10.000. It definitely doesn’t sound like a small amount of money, especially as you keep in mind the fact that most of the people wanting to buy a generator needed for a certain period of time (not permanently). So the generator rental could turn out to be the best thing to do in such cases as it gives the customers many advantages.

First of all, you will save money! No surprise money is mentioned first since the generator rental may be between six and ten times cheaper than purchasing the generator itself. Let’s take a simple example: you need a very expensive generator say for a concert which will be thrown outdoors. Many kilowatts of electricity are needed and you obviously cannot get them by using the utility electricity. Here we come to the powerful generators which will cost you around $10.000 or even more.

Is it really worth spending that much money on a generator which will be needed for no longer than a month, week or even a day?! Of course, it’s not. So the generator rental would certainly be the best thing to do in a situation like that.

As it has been mentioned, a brand new generator would cost $10.000 but if you are lucky enough to come across a good bargain, you may rent such a generator for $1.000 per month or even less. Saving $9.000 is definitely not a minute to be neglected!

But what stops many people from doing it, is that they are afraid of being cheated or being given a generator of low-quality. However, those worries are unfounded since you can rent a generator of high quality. The only thing which makes it different is that somebody else has rented before. So it’s like getting a used generator but still much cheaper! Furthermore, if the generator rental is not fully working or causes problems, you can always complain and get your money back as long as your complaint is founded of course. If you want to minimize the possibility of renting a generator of bad quality or at too high rate, visit a couple of sellers offering the service of generator rental.