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With Encorp, No Energy Emergency for Chicago's Police Department When it comes to summer peak capacity and power reliability, the City of Chicago's Police Department won't have to dial 911, thanks to the installation of an emergency power system featuring Encorp's on-site distributed generation equipment. Now complete, the installation allows the police department's backup emergency generators, each producing nearly one megawatt of power, to be remotely dispatched, monitored and controlled. This means that if Chicago power shortages are eminent, the police department easily can switch from utility-supplied to on-site generated power. The advantages - no downtime, no 911 glitches and no additional costs for expensive peak-time electricity. Encorp worked with project contractor Siemens Building Technology Inc. to retrofit six critical emergency backup generators-four at police stations and two at senior citizen cooling centers. Commonwealth Edison spearheaded the effort to contract for negotiable interruptible power. In addition, generators retrofitted with Encorp equipment can run independent of the ComEd power grid, thus ensuring the police department's critical equipment, such as telephones and computers, are supplied electrical power even during a power outage. Encorp engineers have designed an integrated control system comprised of Encorp's Utility Power Control™, Generator Power Control™ and Communications Processing Module. The integrated solution allows for complete remote start/stop, power-quality monitoring, energy/electrical metering, data logging and automated troubleshooting of multiple Encorp-equipped generators. It also allows communication directly with a central operations center for real-time control and data transfer. Encorp Equipment Installed:
Encorp Provides $1.5 Million of Products and Services for Iowa Towns Three Iowa towns - wanting to generate their own power during peak-demand times -- installed 29 backup-generator systems that feature $1.5 million of Encorp products and services. The Encorp equipment helps ensure customers in Middle Amana, Mount Pleasant and Wilton, Iowa, experience no interruption in electrical service when power is switched from the main utility grid to the local generators during peak times, such as hot summer months, frigid winter weather or other unexpected emergencies. Altorfer Power Systems of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, which managed the project, selected Encorp products and installed the equipment on a total of 29 two-megawatt Caterpillar gensets. Encorp paralleling switchgear controls and interconnects on-site electrical generators, located at commercial and industrial facilities, with the electrical grid. The projects also feature Encorp's Generator Power Control™, which combines traditional control modules, protective relays and network communications capabilities into a single, microprocessor-based device. Altorfer also used Encorp's Virtual Maintenance Monitor™ software that creates a simple, user-friendly interface for local and remote monitoring and control capabilities. Encorp Equipment Installed:
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