Power Plants
"When a power plant goes online there’s no better feeling in the world. Especially in remote areas where it makes a real difference to community life."
Powering everyday life
Without electricity, factories couldn’t operate, hospitals couldn’t offer lifesaving operations and communities wouldn’t be able to power essential facilities. We help to keep services like these running by deploying our rental power plants to:
- Support developing regions while local governments and utilities build their own power plants.
- Supplement the grid when storms or changing weather patterns affect hydropower, solar and wind farms.
- Respond swiftly if natural disasters leave local communities without power for essential services.
Bring power to hard to reach, or inhospitable, locations such as offshore, high altitudes and deserts.
So when you need power for your community, you can count on us.
Custom power plants that meet your needs
When you need to run a large-scale operation, or power an entire city, there’s lot of complex criteria to consider.
Because we design, build and run our power plants, our technicians can install a multi-megawatt plant within weeks. We’ll start by working with you to find the best location for your plant. We’ll consider environmental and local regulations and create detailed plans, including 3D modelling of the proposed site.
We can also take care of any civil works, if needed – levelling the ground, building roads, putting in drainage and laying fuel lines. What’s more, we always put safety first and work to the strictest standards around the world. When we build a power plant we supply everything, including:
- Generators, transformers and switch gear.
- Fuel management, including providing fuel tanks, monitoring fuel levels and scheduling deliveries.
- Control rooms, operated 24/7 by our experienced plant technicians.
- High-voltage and low-voltage power cables.
In addition to setting up your plant, we can also employ and train local people to run the site, if needed. And once it’s time to remove the power plant, we’ll decommission the equipment, remove it from your site and leave everything clean and clear.
Supplement your existing power supply
Sometimes, the demand on your utility can exceed the supply – particularly in rapidly developing regions. You can rent equipment to make up the shortfall until the utility can meet your supply needs. We can:
- Install distributed power generation systems
- Supply power when your plant is down for maintenance
- Apply peak shaving to reduce exposure to high market prices
- Support you during infrastructure upgrades by powering areas not yet connected to the grid
- Plug the gap when renewable energies can’t generate enough power to meet demand – such as hydropower plants during droughts or wind farms during storm season
We can run our plants in grid mode, to supply power to your grid, or we can work in island mode to supply power directly to one area, such as a remote mining operation or an oil field. We can run our generators using the fuel source you already have in place – saving you money.
Capability
For more than 20 years, Aggreko has been delivering power to satisfy the needs of customers in a range of industries, in different configurations, in harsh environments and remote locations.
With our vast range of generators and power plant solutions and our worldwide presence, we can deliver virtually any solution anywhere. We can respond at short notice and install our equipment within days in most locations, depending on the amount of power you need.
Our robust design practises ensures that the power plant will deliver power reliably. Any size power source from 10 KW to 250MW is available as and when needed. This scalable solution matches capacity with the demand to ensure the plant runs at maximum efficiency giving you maximum return on the investment.
We can supply diesel or gas fuel to power the plant and equipment and we can change the fuel type at minimal cost giving you the lowest cost fuel option
THE AGGREKO DIFFERENCE
Because we design, build and run our power plants, our technicians can install a multi-megawatt plant within weeks.
Commercial Arrangements
Our rental arrangements remove the need for capital outlay and enable you to make accurate budget forecasts.
We deliver flexible and cost effective packages tailored to meet the timeframe, location, type of fuel and budget that you require. We offer short and long-term rentals – from three months to many years of partnership. What’s more, the power we supply is scalable and we can increase it or decrease it, depending on demand. We offer a fuel burn guarantee that caps production costs.
Our rental arrangements mean you only need to pay for it for as long as you need it. After that, we remove the installation at no further cost.
Aggreko delivers, installs and proactively maintains the plant and equipment for you, with costs associated with routine maintenance included in the rental fee. Supplied on an as need basis the units can be deployed and re-located as required.
How can we help you?
Get in touch and we’ll help find what’s right for you