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During emergency electric power outages, planned project shut downs, and to meet a short lived rise in energy demands business owners often need to consider renting emergency power generators.

ElecComm Power supplies back-up emergency generators in an around New England and New York. In addition to leasing electrical generator equipment, we also lease other electrical equipment such as load banks, fuel tanks, transformers and power cable and distribution panels and accessories.

Load Banks
Load Banks are used for a variety of applications which include testing power sources such as generators and uninterruptible power supplies, reducing “wet stacking” problems, factory testing of engine generator sets, ground power testing, battery testing, and more.

Fuel Tanks
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 has single-walled or double-walled skidded tanks. They are available in the following sizes: 500-1000 gallons.

Power Cables and Distribution Panels
Renting electricity accessories with the equipment you need ends up costing your business less money. We rent power cables and many other distribution panels in order to complement our top-notch rental equipment.

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.

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.