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By Lyn Corum The Brevoort—a 20-story, 1950s-era co-op in the heart of Greenwich Village in New York City, NY—did not go dark when Superstorm Sandy struck Manhattan on October 29, 2012. All of the power on lower Fifth Avenue was lost, but the co-op stood bright among its dark neighbors, thanks to the 400-kW Tecogen natural gas-fired cogeneration system installed in 2010 that powered the entire building until Consolidated Edison’s power was restored five days later. The natural gas supply sy...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Backup, Energy Reliability, Reliability
By David Engle Last year’s Hurricane Sandy reminded us that power outages, big or small, are going to happen. Whenever well-prepared facilities are struck, the critical loads within are protected with stored energy. During a dozen seconds or so, in quick succession comes automatic fault detection, risk evaluation, and transfer of loads to UPS backup, until standby diesels can kick on from a cold start and take over. At each step come failure risks. Afterwards, still more failure hazards follow if...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Backup, Data Centers, Facilities
By MARITA MIRZATUNY | Published: FEBRUARY 6, 2013 Was it the duel between two brothers coaching opposing teams? The awesome performance by Beyonce’ and the reunion of Destiny's Child? Ray Lewis' last game? No. What everyone was talking about post Super Bowl 2013 was the power outage! Let’s get this straight: With over 108 million people watching the most important football game of the year — the third most watched TV program ever — yielding hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising revenues, the pow...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Backup
HOUSTON, TX – (Feb. 4, 2013) – International Facility Management Association President and CEO Tony Keane, CAE released the following statement after a facility failure at the Superdome in New Orleans resulted in a delay in the middle of the third quarter of the 2013 Super Bowl. Facility management is a profession that encompasses multiple disciplines to ensure functionality of the built environment by integrating people, place, process and technology. This includes the maintenance and repair of electric...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Backup
On October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy’s storm surge reached New York City flooding streets, tunnels, subway lines and causing massive power outages throughout the city. When devastation such as Hurricane Sandy occurs, quick response is essential to Caterpillar’s customers. Through the mobilization of temporary power to customers throughout the region, the Electric Power team and the Cat® Dealer Network supported the recovery efforts in the region. Cat dealers across the country sent equipment, personnel a...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Backup
Normal.dotm 0 0 1 1151 6566 Forester Media Inc 54 13 8063 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false Florham Park, N.J. January 16, 2013 — Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson (NYSE: EMR) and a global leader in maximizing availability, capacity and efficiency of critical infrastructure, has released a survey of facility executives showing a wide gap between emergency and backup power systems and the controls that monitor them. The gap is widest between the value of compliance reporting and i...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Backup
By Ed Ritchie When backup power fails at water and wastewater treatment plants, the results can be catastrophic. But the good news is that such events are often avoidable by a proper assessment of backup equipment and disaster planning strategy. For example, a thorough assessment of equipment could have avoided a disaster in Connecticut in late 2011, when tropical storm Irene and October snow resulted in 47 spills with severity ranging from 42.7 million gallons of partially treated sewage dumped ...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Backup, Facilities, Reliability
By Lyn Corum The two universities and a public school system profiled here are taking command of their energy use in a way that reveals a phenomenal sophistication and innovation in their use of technologies to reduce and monitor campus energy demand, while integrating student education about energy use into campus infrastructure. They are installing solar systems to reduce peak demand, but these systems are a small part of the effort to submeter and monitor campus equipment and, in one case, to ...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Backup, Facilities, Power Systems
By By: Andy Darrell, EDF's New York Regional Director & Deputy Director of the US Energy and Climate Program
Like so many others, my family lost power, heat and water during Superstorm Sandy, and I watched out my window as a giant flash marked the moment that waters crested a 12-foot retaining wall at the 14th Street ConEd plant. New Yorkers are all too familiar with the devastation that followed, and the disruption that spread far beyond the water’s reach. As the immediate crises are resolved, our attention is now on the complex challenge of long-term resilience. One big step: The NYS 2100 Commission, a panel ...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Backup, Energy Reliability
By David Engle Even in an ailing economy, the data business is booming. Traffic on the Net streams in mega-torrents now, and the global appetite for smart phones and other mobile devices is insatiable (see Additional Content: “ Data Center Growth, by the Number s”). To handle it all, banks of servers customized for ICT (Information and Communications Technology) are on the march. Once, not long ago, they could be easily billeted in modest offices. They received basic climate amenities, like extra...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Backup, Facilities, Reliability
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