KEEPING L.A. COUNTY QUENCHED AND COOL - Single gen-set system provides backup power for nation's largest water and power utility

摘要

With all of Los Angeles County - the nation's largest metropolitan area by population - to monitor, it was important that Los Angeles Dept. of Water and Power (LADWP) had enough power to back up its computer monitoring and air conditioning systems in the event of a utility failure. Not surprisingly, the LADWP is considered to be the largest municipal water and power utility in the U.S. A single generator set backs up the LADWP central office in downtown L.A., but that central office is responsible for monitoring several remote offices as well, making continuous power that much more important. LADWP worked with Richard Henley, an independent consulting engineer, and East Peoria, lll.-based power generation packager Enercon to meet its specific design requirements.