Moreover, it's critical to ensure that you have adequate fail-safes in place to off-set any unplanned outages, failures, or other incidents which might get in the way of the proper functioning of your site. Assessing your current base needs can be complicated in and of itself. That's why we at Depco have a range of helpful calculators and tools to help you gauge your capacity needs, as well as a free first-time buyers guide for those who are new to the world of power generators.
During this process it's important to take good stock of the possible outcomes and impacts of a failure to one or more of your generators. Although unlikely, particularly if you source your generator from a reputable dealer, multiple failures can have an absolutely critical impact on your bottom line, resulting in a whole host of negative side effects: lost revenue, safety concerns, loss of flow on the outbound end, and lost moral for workers. In almost every case where this occurs, proper planning would have either profoundly mitigated, or entirely avoided the failure.
Beyond the possibility of a failure, it's important to plan for additional capacity. This ensures that if your project benefits from growth over the term of the project, you're not finding your opportunity squandered by lack of capacity. Alongside a failure, this can also detrimentally affect your projects overall viability and result in lost revenue – the last thing a project manager wants.
Once you've determined your need for extra capacity, you must identity which additional generator best suits your need. You can find a range of generators on our website, which should give you a broad idea of what would work best for you. Ensure that you order your unit in plenty of time for it to arrive at the site, keeping in mind the difficulties inherent in transporting large-scale equipment to often remote locations, the time it takes to process orders, and any other possible impediment to getting your project running in a timely manner. Anything is possible, however it's important to plan ahead.
A critical aspect of using backup power generators is ensuring that they are daisy-chained with your current primary generator system so that if the worst occurs, the outage will automatically initiate the back-up. You don't want to waste valuable moments reconfiguring your grid to your backup. Perhaps most importantly out of all the considerations presented here, is making absolutely sure that you carry out the recommended maintenance to ensure that your unit will perform when the situation calls for it.
For help building power generation capacity, feel free to get in contact with a power generation expert for an assessment of your project and an outline of your options and the generators that would be best suited to your use case.
