Standby power and electrical
Generators and electrical systems
Standby generators, transfer switching and the electrical distribution behind them, kept ready for the outage rather than discovered during it.
Chapter 01
What fails when the power does
A standby generator spends most of its life doing nothing, and that is when it quietly loses ground. Starting batteries run down, fuel goes stale, water collects in the tank, coolant and block heaters age out. Then the utility drops, the transfer switch that has never been exercised under load sticks, and a machine that looked ready in the plant room does not carry the building.
The electrical systems behind it fail more slowly and more quietly. Loose terminations heat up under load, circuits that have been added to over the years run overloaded, and a panel that runs warm is already telling you something. ESS maintains electrical generators and electrical systems for commercial and industrial buildings across Puerto Rico, and these are the faults we look for before they interrupt operations.
A standby diesel generator in an open steel enclosure on a concrete pad beside a white commercial building, palms behind
How we inspect, run and test
Our trained engineers and technicians inspect the generator, run it, and where appropriate put load on it, then check that the transfer switch hands the building over and back the way it should. The point is to find out in a planned visit what an outage would otherwise teach you at the worst moment, when nobody has time to troubleshoot.
On the distribution side, modern testing technology lets us assess the electrical system without shutting the building down. Thermal imaging is the familiar example: a hot termination in a panel or switchgear shows up on screen long before it shows up as a failure. The information collected is analyzed before anything is written up, so the findings rest on measurements rather than impressions.
Chapter 03
Aftercare: the report, the repairs and the 24/7 line
After each inspection a complete and detailed report is issued, outlining our findings and recommendations to help improve operations, reduce energy consumption and extend equipment life. We also keep electronic records of every service, so the condition of the generator and the electrical system can be tracked between inspections, and those digital records are always available to our customers.
When a repair is needed, we can deliver on tight deadlines, because a building without power is a building that cannot operate. If there is an outage, an equipment failure or a natural disaster, call the 24/7 line at 787-944-3109. We are on the job around the clock, for clients across Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.
Predictive and preventive maintenance, inspections, testing and repairs for commercial and industrial buildings across Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. Emergency line 787-944-3109, 24/7.