Aggreko’s general contractor customer is a leader on the road to sustainable construction practices. For this project, they needed a partner to help them solve the problem of maintaining enough power for a large tower crane while keeping costs and emissions in check. Their tower crane needed a generator with enough power to manage transient loads. Since the tower crane was only used during a few hours per day, their existing tier 2,500 kW diesel generator spent long periods sitting idle, running underloaded or – even worse – on negative loads. This generator was impacting project emissions targets and costs of operations were skyrocketing. That’s where Aggreko stepped in.

The pilot was placed on the same location with an identical tower crane onsite for a side-by-side comparison with excellent results. We saw a 50% reduction in run time which equated to a 46% reduction in fuel burned accompanied with an overall site emission reduction of 39%.