Use of Generator

There may be a need to use a generator on location to provide the AC mains supply for the following reasons:

·         No suitable mains supply available – insufficient power

– Unreliable supply

– Low voltage

– No mains available

·         Back-up supply to the National Grid for actuality coverage of an important event

·         Operational convenience, when needing to cover many areas to avoid having to make a special mains connection. Plus convenience of standard plugs and sockets, no need for adaptors to domestic mains.

Generators may be:

·         Portable – providing just a few kVA of power.

·         Static – delivered to site by a separate vehicle and left.

·         Mobile – generator complete with its distribution system on its own vehicle.

·         Carrier – in which space is provided on the generator vehicle for carrying lighting equipment.

Thousands of dirty diesel generators are being secretly prepared all over Britain to provide emergency back-up to prevent the National Grid collapsing when wind power fails. And under the hugely costly scheme, the National Grid is set to pay up to 12 times the normal wholesale market rate for the electricity they generate.

Thousands of dirty diesel generators are being secretly prepared all over Britain to provide emergency back-up to prevent the National Grid collapsing when wind power fails.

And under the hugely costly scheme, the National Grid is set to pay up to 12 times the normal wholesale market rate for the electricity they generate.

One of the main beneficiaries of the stopgap plan is the Government itself, which stands to make hundreds of millions of pounds by leasing out the capacity of the generators in public-sector property.