ElecComm Power Services Blog

Commercial generator rentals supply power when electricity is not available, supply power when electricity is difficult to provide, and during planned power outages.

The above can create several scenarios in which it is necessary to rent a generator from an emergency power supply service.

Emergency Power Supply System Replacements
When facilities like hospitals, data centers, defense organizations, and first response units replace their own emergency power supply system (EPSS), there are several days where they will be without emergency back-up power for days or weeks. When a facility depends on constant electricity to support critical services, renting an EPSS is important.

EPSS repairs and maintenance
When your EPSS needs repairs or maintenance, the system will be offline. It may be necessary to rent an emergency power system.
 
Power outages from weather and natural disasters
During power outages caused by bad weather, municipalities can be left without critical services like public water, sewer, and heat. Rental generators can be used to power community centers and other facilities that can be used as shelters.

Outdoor events
For outdoor events, festivals and fairs, where electricity is not available, rental generators as well as power distribution units, connector cables, and other equipment can support these events.

High voltage events
There are some events in particular that require a lot of electricity. Events like concerts, and political events which require lighting, and amplification rental generators are necessary to provide the necessary voltage.

Construction sites
Depending on the work, construction sites often require generators to power tools and machines. Rental generators are often available at construction sites, and are necessary for construction in remote places.

There was an unexpected New England storm in October, and Homes and Businesses were dramatically affected by the storm, and it took far longer than expected to restore power all over New England.  Storms and most power loss cannot be planned. But your business does not have to be affected by power loss. Contact ElecComm Power Services for information on rental generators to power your business.

A rare October snowstorm caused record-breaking power outages affecting hundreds of thousands of  homes and businesses.

Nearly 3 million homes and businesses across the Northeast lost power after wet, heavy snow downed scores of trees still full of leaves and power lines. Only two months earlier Tropical Storm Irene caused outages all over New England.

Most states and municipalities were not prepared for this storm. Don’t be left without power, and therefore without commerce through unexpected storms and power outages.  Rental commercial generators are the answer to unexpected power outages during intense New England storms.

Contact ElecComm Power Services to create your emergency power plan.

For emergency power disruptions or scheduled outages, your business needs a power generator rental company with full-service shops and highly trained professionals. In addition, you may need additional resources and support. At ElecComm Power, we can help you with:

• Generator Rental
• Load Bank Rental
• Fuel Tank Rental
• Power Cable & Distribution Panel Rental
• Transformer Rental
• Chiller Rental
• Heater Rental
• Air Conditioner Rental
• Emergency Contingency Plans

ElecComm Power Systems rents trailer-mounted generators for planned power outages or emergency situations from 20kW to 2MW. Rent by the day, week, or month. Our generator sets fit just about any application.
 
For ease and mobility our rental generators are skid-mounted on fuel tank bases or trailer/van mounted depending on the size.

Turn Key Rental Generator Services are Available 24/7:

• Installation & Removal of Rental Equipment
• Refueling
• Maintenance
• All Equipment EPA/CARB Certified
• Sound mitigated on All Equipment
• Engineering & Emergency Planning Assistance

• Portable Power Generators
• Transformers
• Automatic Transfer Switches
• Power Cable
• Load Banks
• Temporary Power
• Cable & Boxes

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.

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.

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.

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.