SEABROOK — It's been nearly three months since the Seabrook Station nuclear power plant stopped supplying electricity to the New England region. The plant shut down for refueling on Oct. 20 and, as of ...
As a tool you generally break out in the event of an emergency situation, a generator is expected to have a certain degree of reliability. Otherwise, what would be the point of something that's ...
While testing equipment last year, workers at the V.C. Summer nuclear plant discovered a small oil leak in a section of pipe that served one of the most important backup safety systems in the facility ...
A new rule requiring industries to upgrade their diesel generator (DG) sets is causing problems for companies, which are grappling with challenges arising from ...
During the 2005 U.S. hurricane season, power outages were widespread, calling a great many diesel generators into service. While most started and delivered much needed power to their facilities, many ...
Today’s electrical grid delivers reliable electricity to millions of homes and businesses. However, electrical failures that affect large geographic areas do happen on a recurring basis due to ...
In the world of data centers, ensuring a facility will be online 99.999 percent of the time, is everything. Access to power is the number one priority when developers are trying to figure out where to ...
Only a few years ago, traditional logic for generator sets (gensets) held that diesel meant reliable and inexpensive but also noisy, loud and messy. Natural gas meant expensive and temperamental but ...