Getting Down to Business

摘要

Specifying standby power systems used to be a primarily technical process, involving the evaluation of electrical loads and federal, state and local electrical codes for maintaining essential life-safety systems. These codes ensured that, in the event of a utility outage, there was enough power to provide minimal lighting, operate elevators in high-rise buildings and keep alarm systems activated while employees or customers safely exited the building. The solution then was a generator set that met these minimum requirements. But more and more, sizing and specifying standby power systems is becoming a business decision, driven by economic risk assessment and a continually growing dependence on a virtually perpetual source of electric power.