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.

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.

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.

As the owner of a business, it's alright for you to get agitated when your industrial air conditioning system malfunctions.  No need to worry, as you can rent commercial air conditioners to fit any need during everyday of your work week.

You may rent air conditioners for a day or as long as you need to. These air conditioner rentals can be used for many varying business or industry situations, it can also be used for event venues as well.  During home emergencies on a hot summer season, it can temporarily replace a defective in-house air conditioner unit.  It can also server as an air conditioning unit for outdoor events.

Air conditioners could vary from 1 ton capacity to 50 ton capacity. While the lower range of air conditioners have thermostatic control and are rated for outdoor use, the 5 ton Voyager is very quiet in operation and has a two stage heater.

There maybe a time you might need captive power in the form of generators to power the air conditioner that you have rented. Such requirements are also met and you could order the generating set that could give you as much as 2000 kW output. This would be akin to a turnkey arrangement that could be arranged.

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.

On Sunday March 6th 2011, a New England based utility company lost a primary feed that powered up one of the local transit authority's substation. One of the cables had been compromised by a local construction contractor who accidentally dug into the cable.

The utility quickly swapped over to its back-up power feed. At the time (Sunday) the back-up feed was sufficient to handle the load of the transportation system, but the back-up feed's capacity would not be able to handle Monday mornings rush hour load. Once they realized that the fault could not be repaired in time for Monday morning they turned to ElecComm Power Services for a solution.

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EPS immediately dispatched a 320kw generator, a 2MW generator, a 2500kva step-up to 13.8kv transformer, and 2000' of 4/0 cable to the site. Equipment was placed and connected and on-line within 4 hours of initial call.

The generator allowed the train station to operate at full capacity for 2 days with no interruptions.

ElecComm Power Services provided full turn-key support for the outage. This included 24/7 monitoring of equipment, fueling and rigging.

Your business could be one that demands a back-up or standby power at all times. There are several businesses that fall in this category. These businesses are nursing homes and large buildings, refrigeration operations or healthcare related establishments. All large commercial and industrial operations would generally be totally dependant on power right through the day or night and for every day of the week. Special event venues and construction sites also come in this category. If you are in any one of these business enterprises then it may be a cheaper option to go for a generator for rent.

In case of a power failure you need rental generators to serve as backups. Such generators could be in any one of several power ratings such as from 25 kW to 125 kW and 150-400 kW. The rating could be 500-1500 kW or even as large as 2000 kW. You may also need movie production generators that would have to function continuously or tower power generators for telecommunication support.

If you are interested in the rental of generator with an output rating between 25 kW and 125 kW then you would get a generator that would be equipped with a wireless monitoring system. The sound level would not exceed 65 DBA and there would be an easy method of selection of voltages.

Your generator would also come fitted with a yellow strobe light that would indicate an alarm for low fuel light. Similarly the 2000 kW generator would have utility grade paralleling switchgear and would be powered by a fuel efficient electronically controlled diesel engine. It would be one of the quietest generator sets too.

If you are into movie production and in need of generator rentals for this purpose then you could go for a studio generator that's super silent. The generator has a sound proofing design that will not drown out the performers in the show. It has well-designed sound baffles and an exhaust silencer that brings down the sound to a hush. Similarly the tower power generators are environmental friendly, rugged in construction and very quiet during operation.

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.

Does it need mention that all modern buildings nowadays function with the help of a web of electrical gadgets? It is immaterial whether you belong to the developed or developing side of the world; one and all face power interruptions more or less. And as the countries world over face steady electricity crunch, more and more people are opting for generator for rent.

The credit of this trend by all means goes to the need for a cheaper power solution to your short-term electricity needs. For example, isn't paying rental of a generator much more affordable than buying a new generator, when the event you need it for spans for just one whole day or a few hours only, may be? Likewise, there are many other situations when renting a generator is much wiser than buying a new one.

As technology progresses by leaps and bounds, you can expect your office/factory warehouse, etc. to get even more loaded with electrical gadgets in the coming future. So, you cannot accurately predict the size of your demand out of a power generator, can you? Purchasing a generator, which is invariably expensive, is an expensive proposition, especially for a business, which can invest the same amount elsewhere and make more money out of it.

Renting out portable generators, which range in size from 25 kW to 2,000 kW makes sense in areas where there is no continuous electricity connection. Rural areas and calamity-stricken areas are a couple of such examples where you cannot rely on the local supply of power. Here, going for a portable generator can only save you from the inconveniences in conducting day-to-day activities requiring electrical gadgets. Likewise, generator rentals do not burn holes in the pockets of people involved in event management, construction site management, warehouses, etc.Since they often need one with varying capacities to suit the task at hand.

The ease with which you can order a generator for rent is exemplary. You can walk into a store, check out your options and rent out the one that suits your immediate needs the best; or you can just call an advertised number of the vendor supplying rental generators and place your order; or even easier, you can go online and through the e-store decide, pick and place an order in a blink of an eye.

One of the most useful tools in the realm of power generation is the load bank - a self-contained device that applies electrical loads to a power source, then converts or dissipates the resulting power. Power generation entails a number of different resources, tools, and solutions, ranging from generators and transformers to fuel tanks and power accessories. But one of the most useful tools in the realm of power generation is the load bank.

The purpose is to mimic the actual load that a power source will see in application. So, while a real load is served by an actual power source, a load bank serves the power source and uses its energy output to test, support or protect that source. This method of power generation is beneficial in that while a real load is often unpredictable and random in value; the load applied from a load bank provides an organized and controllable load.

Load banks - particularly applicable to the shipping, oil and gas, and utilities industries - can be put to various uses - one of the most common being in power system testing. For instance, many companies will need to test their lower power factor simulation, frequency converters, or entire electrical systems - often for maintenance purposes. And doing so can prevent the risk of costly power failures, as well as maximize efficient production during routine maintenance. Another common use is in the construction of gas turbine platforms and the commissioning of newly installed turbine or diesel generators. And finally, they are valuable tools in the reduction of wet stacking problems, periodic 'exercising' of generator equipment, battery testing, and the removal of carbon build-up on certain electrical or power generation equipment.

Load banks come in various sizes, and with different power-factor testing capabilities. What's more, they're available in portable and compact forms, enabling use in a range of spaces. Feel free to contact us at any time should you have any questions about load banks or power services and we’ll be happy to help.