Facility backup power for a utility: outage time cut by 99%
Reducing a utility’s outage time by 99 percent
- The challenge
Keeping customer lights on: Facility backup power during utility upgrades
- The solution
A ready-to-go package of temporary power substation solutions with the manpower to support it
- The impact
Reliable power alternatives: facility backup power during utility upgrades
Client:Major utility company
Location:Trimble, Ohio, USA
Sectors:Utilities
The Challenge
Keeping customer lights on: Facility backup power during utility upgrades
A major electric utility company was conducting upgrades to a transmission line, which would require a two-day outage to complete the work. Unfortunately, this would leave many customers without power for several hours. Immediate on-site utility outage power at 13KV was needed to keep the distribution network energized to avoid outages and unhappy customers. The utility needed backup power it could rely on from the first minute of the switchover.
Equipment would need to be deployed and set up within a week, but since hunting season was underway, no access was allowed on the site until two days before the outage was set to occur.