ElecComm Power Services Blog

Boston firefighters have been battling a smoky, electrical transformer fire in a utility building in Boston's Back Bay, that led to a huge power outage in the downtown area.

Emergency officials said Tuesday night there were no reports of injuries, but one person was taken to a hospital for minor respiratory problems. Fire officials said the smoke wasn't toxic, but people were advised to avoid it.

A local utility spokesman Mike Duran said a problem in one electrical substation spread to a second one. He said the power outage was affecting the Back Bay, Chinatown, the theater district, Kenmore Square and parts of the South End. He said once the damage is assessed the company will begin working to restore power with large generators.

Two hotels and nearby businesses were evacuated. Streets were closed in the area, and subway trains weren't stopping at stations there.

A local utility placed a call to ElecComm Power Services for emergency support.   ElecComm is currently loading in over 30 megawatts of emergency generated power into downtown Boston through miles of cable and many transformers. This is the largest emergency generator powered job in the city’s history . This event is so large a normally busy street that’s clogged with bumper-to-bumper morning traffic “Commonwealth  Avenue” is being used as an EPS equipment staging area. Stay tuned for updates.

ElecComm opens NEW office in Connecticut, located on 36 Michael Dr., Meriden, CT.

ElecComm Power Services delivers temporary and emergency power solutions 24/7. With our versatile fleet of 20-2000KW portable generators, transformers and distribution cables we can support any situation.

EPS has been providing these services for many years throughout New England and New York. With our new office at 36 Michael Drive in Meriden, Ct, we can now offer a quicker response to our customers that are in the NY, CT areas.

Please contact us at 877-658-1968 or visit us at www.eleccommps.com to learn more about how we can support your power needs.

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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

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.

A transformer is electronic equipment which is designed to carry electricity from one voltage and transform it into a new voltage. A transformer which is bought in use can be classified into two broad categories: power supply and signal matching. This device is purely based on extreme straightforward details concerning about the electricity: when an uneven electric current runs through a wire, it generates a magnetic field everywhere around it.

The power of magnetism is directly related to size of electric power. As a result the higher the voltage of the power, the stronger will be the magnetic field. When a magnetic field amends around a part of wire, it generates electric current in the wire.

Electrical transformers renovates from one value to another. It is a set of two or more helixes and ferromagnetic core which is known to be as winding. This methodology includes two sets of coils which are connected with the help of a magnetic field. Two coils namely primary and secondary are also known to function as conductors. At some instances when AC voltage is obtained by primary coil it produces a changeable magnetic field current in the region of the conductor.

At ElecComm Power Services, we can supply transformers to tie in with our generator and equipment rentals. We offer many different sizes, voltages and configurations. We are focused on 24/7 turnkey emergency power solutions. All of our products meet all major industry standards. Contact us today should you need a commercial generator or transformer with any of our rentals.