ElecComm Power Services Blog

When problems arise with electricity, it is hard to decide if you should rent a generator or buy one. Obviously, you need to consider the economics of your business in addition to the availability of one in the market.

The first consideration of course, is understanding how much back up power you need on a sustained basis. Once you understand this, you can consider your options for generator rental versus purchasing one. Evaluation of your budget is imperative once you determine that there are generators available with your power output needs. In the scenario that your generator requirements are seasonal it generally makes more sense to rent a generator.

It is possible to rent generators with a power output of 20kW to 2MW. There are super silent generators available for movie production as well as specialized generators for powering your tower in the case of the telecom business.

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.

There are many situations and any number of occasions when you may need a generator for rent. Such occasions could be due to the kind of business that you run. You could be the administrator of a huge office building and may feel the necessity of generator rentals as a sort of backup. If you own a hospital or a hotel similarly you would need generators as backup support.

In the case of an emergency procedure such as in the ICU you may need the generator to function as the main source of power supply since you may not like to risk a power failure during a critical stage of the surgery. There are special event venues that require generators on hire as well as construction sites that may not have the facility of a ready power source at the offsite location.

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.

You can order a generator for rent in various power output specifications such as one between 25 to 125 kW or a generator that is rated between 150 to 400 kW. There are generators for hire in the 500 to 1500 kW category as well as one that goes up to 2000 kW output. Then there are generators for movie production and those for the telecom industry. Each of these types of generators can be hired during any time of the day or night and right through the week. So, if your industry grinds to a halt in the middle of the night due to a power failure you'd know that the right kind of generator rentals is only a phone call away.

A generator for rent in the power output limited to 125 kW would have the facility of selecting the right voltage and would include an electronic governor. The 2000 kW generator would be the quietest you will ever see in the US. For your movie production your generator would be whisper-silent with an output of 60 kW/75 kVA.

For further information on generator for rent or generator rentals please visit us at www.eleccommpowerservices.comor call us on 1-800-736-8251.