Hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters in the news highlight the importance of reliable emergency power for water and wastewater treatment facilities.
Besides providing backup electric power, engine-generator sets and accompanying switchgear can deliver cost savings through peak shaving and utility-sponsored demand response programs.Russelectric, a Siemens business, offers sophisticated emergency power systems. The company’s paralleling switchgear offers redundant programmable logic controller controls and manual backup capability.The complete systems are custom designed and UL listed. The design allows manual start and synchronization of the generator sets if automatic controls malfunction. The systems can also control microgrid systems using combinations of conventional
