Does Your Commercial Building Have a Generator?

Importance of Generator for Commercial Buildings

Your commercial building has worked like a charm up to this point — but do you have a backup plan for when things finally do go wrong? Buying a used generator, and fitting it to deliver power to your electrical systems in the event of a sudden power failure, can make all the difference between keeping your business running and facing total catastrophe. Let’s look at the critical benefits a generator can provide for your commercial building, including some specific scenarios and industries in which a constant supply of electrical power is an absolute must.Commercial

Why Generators Matter

The more unreliable the nation’s regional grids become, the more essential it is for business owners and facility managers to maintain their own generators. Power outages across the nation increased from 2,840 in 2009 to 3,526 in 2017, with the number of people affected jumping from 13 million per year to an astonishing 37 million per year. The ever-increasing demands on the power grids make practically any business vulnerable to a potential outage.

Even when the grids are managing their everyday load, major electrical storms or natural disasters can knock them out of service — taking your business along with it. But when you have a generator that can step in and keep the electricity flowing, you can simply conduct business as usual until the grid comes back up. The generator transfer switch automatically directs emergency power to the circuits you’ve designated as critical, providing an interrupted source of power as long as you continue to fuel and run the generator.

Specific Applications for Your Business

Generators do more than simply keep you open for business; in many cases, they can prevent for business from sustaining enormous, possibly irreversible losses.

Here are just a few examples of how generators can save specific types of businesses:

• Medical facilities – Hospitals and other medical facilities safeguard the health, or even the very lives, of their patients — many of whom are undergoing surgery in electrically-powered operating room or depending on life-support systems and monitors. Generators are quite literally a life-or-death matter for these facilities.

• Tech centers – Tech centers require “always-on” power for their equipment. Many of them provide cloud-based data services, which means that when they grind to a halt, so do all of their clients’ businesses. Generator power allows you to maintain normal operations.

• Hospitality and transportation providers – Restaurants, hotels, and event centers can’t afford the food spoilage, booking confusion, and climate-control failures caused by power outages. Airports also need continuous power for their air-traffic control operations.

See related: Secure your generator from theft.

You don’t necessarily have to buy a brand-new generator to address these concerns. Used diesel generators can get the job done just as efficiently and reliably, since these units are designed for heavy-duty, long-term service. Contact us today to ask about our current stock of used generators for sale — and give your commercial building the constant power supply it so desperately needs.