The Power of 10

from Worldwide Independent Power - Jan/Feb 2023

ENGINE MANUFACTURERS GUIDE

Modular Power Solution

Bergen Engines, together with Piller Power Systems and Marelli Motori, present The Power of 10.

A scaleable microgrid power solution featuring optional Integrated Power Conditioning Technology (IPCT) n 10MW multiples to 100MW+ n No standby generators n Waste heat recovery to cooling n Totally flexible in conjunction with renewables

So, if you are thinking partial or total grid-independence, think The Power of 10

ISSUE #244

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February 7th, 2023: Rescuers are battling heavy rain and snow as they race against the clock to find survivors of a devastating earthquake in south-east Turkey. More than 17,000+ people were killed and at least 15,000 injured in Turkey and over the border in Syria when the quake struck in the early hours.

The World Health Organization has warned the toll may rise dramatically in the days and weeks following the event.

There has been severe damage to roads and the local power infrastructure with powerlines down and the grid has been affected by damage to substations, hydropower and solar facilities. Underground high-voltage cable links have also been damaged. Rescue teams and the military are using portable generators sets to power lights and digging & detection equipment.

Teams have worked through the night in the city of Adana, with lights illuminating the collapsed buildings and broken concrete structures in scenes repeated across southern Turkey.

The 7.8 magnitude tremor struck at 04:17 (01:17 GMT) on February 6th at a depth of 17.9km (11 miles) near the city of Gaziantep, according to the US Geological Survey.

A later tremor had a magnitude of 7.5 and its epicentre was in the Elbistan district of Kahramanmaras province. At least 1,600 people are now known to have been killed in Syria, where millions of refugees already live in camps on the Turkish border. Following an international appeal for help, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said 45 countries had offered practical support in the form of EMT teams and supplies of water, food, diesel fuel tanks, trucks, helicopters and emergency generators.

Generators used in disaster relief situations employ conventional fuel sources such as petrol, diesel, propane, and natural gas. Emergency diesel generators offer high efficiency, producing more energy on a normali basis when compared with petrol. Diesel fuel burns hotter, leaving fewer residues on internal combustion chambers, allowing for increased engine life as well. Recent developments to integrate an exhaust scrubber have affected the efficiency of diesel generators but they still outperform other gensets in terms of energy efficiency.

The European Union has sent gensets and search and rescue teams to Turkey, along with rescuers from the Netherlands and Romania on their way. The UK has despatched specialists, equipment, power units and rescue dogs. France, Germany, Israel and the US have also arrived with equipment. Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered help to both Turkey & Syria, as has Iran.

AIDAN TURNBULL Managing Editor

p. 18 | MARKET REPORT

LOW-POWER GENSET MARKET 2022-26

In 2022, diesel-fueled generator sets had the highest market share of about 88.0% in the 50 kVA to 150 kVA low-power generator sets market. Diesel generators with lower power ratings are used for construction and commercial applications. These generators are widely used as they are affordable and easier to maintain as compared to power generators with different fuel types. Diesel-fueled generators are generally cheaper than gas and hybrid generators. Diesel-powered generators have higher emissions than gas generators, however.

p. 19| GENSETS

500 KVA DIESEL GENSET INSTALLED AT A LOGISTICS PLANT IN KIELCE, POLAND

COELMO is the company behind a recent successful genset installation involving a 1500-RPM FDTC137W 500 kVA COELMO genset for a corporate client based in Kielce, Poland. The generating set, powered by an FPT engine, the water-cooled CURSOR13 TE7W, provides backup power for a logistics plant & offers special features like parallel control panel.

p. 20| ENERGY FROM BIOMETHANE

MWM GAS ENGINES GENERATING FOR THE LOCAL NETWORK

An innovative energy project is currently being rolled out in Alfhausen in Germany’s Osnabrück Land region. The project demonstrates how it will be possible to implement smart, flexible heat supply in the future. Two containerized cogeneration power plants, each of which is powered by an MWM TCG 3020 V20 gas engine, form the core of the project. The Alfhausen cogeneration power plant is the first of three biomethane district heat projects to be rolled out in the Osnabrück region.

p. 21| HIGH-EFFICIENCY HEATING HOTSTART ACQUIRES GEO-THERMAL SYSTEMS

A new company acquisition by Hotstart will bring a range of high-efficiency heating systems using heat pump technology to its portfolio. These are used to maintain standby generators installed in the Americas. Thermal management systems specialist Hotstart announced last month it has acquired Geo-Thermal Systems Inc. (GTS)..

p. 22 | ENGINES

NEW ENGINES MEET CHINA STAGE IV

Cummins has unveiled an upgraded high performance 8.9-litre L series engine which moves up to 400 hp (298 kW) with a peak torque of 1800 Nm – an 11 percent increase over that of CS III. Offering class-leading fuel economy and the ability to run at high altitudes while maintaining power capability. CS IV engines do more with less. They offer up to 10 percent increased power density with better transient performance for improved machine productivity. Cummins says the engines provide Improved reliability with best in class fuel economy.

p. 24 | POWER UNITS

IMPROVED POWER QUALITY FOR PASSENGER ACCESS

When Stannah came to them with a technical problem CP Automation responded quickly and diagnosed voltage transients as being the root cause of drive failures for Network Rail. To help limit recurrent spikes and surges and the damages these cause, CP Automation supplied extra equipment to Stannah to solve the problem.

p. 26 | GENERATORS

GENERATORS ON TODAY’S ELECTRIC WARSHIPS

Fairbanks Morse Defense is expanding its naval defence capabilities by offering the nForcer FM 175D engine, the defence contractor’s first engine designed for high-speed applications. With more power density than competing highspeed engines in the marketplace, the nForcer FM 175D is best suited to support the substantial power and propulsion needs of the US Navy’s unmanned programmes. The Navy’s future fleet will be electric, and require more power for each vessel to support advanced weapons and detection systems.

P.27| ENERGY STORAGE

SUPPORTING NEW ZEALANDS’ ENERGY TRANSITION

Saft, a subsidiary of TotalEnergies, has been awarded a major contract by Meridian Energy to construct New Zealand’s first large-scale grid-connected BESS. Located at Ruakākā in the country’s North Island, the 100-megawatt (MW) BESS will improve the stability of the national grid, as intermittent renewable power generation increases in New Zealand. The BESS is just the first stage of full energy project.

P.28| SMART HYBRID

NEW SMART HYBRID SYSTEM

Smart Hybrid Hub powered by FPT Industrial is a completely new project for environmentallyfriendly power generation, says the company. The unit is composed of FPT’s F28 gas engine and a 37-kWh battery pack. FPT Industrial took charge of overall development of the Smart Hybrid Hub and the project was led by the Innovation Team located in the company’s R&D center in Arbon, Switzerland.

AGGREKO BUYING CRESTCHIC AND ALSO RESOLUTE INDUSTRIAL IN TWO DEALS WORTH A COMBINED £562 MILLION

Microturbine Has Power Generation Abilities

New for 2023, the ARC microturbine generator from FusionFlight offer high power to weight ratio and compact dimensions making it ideal for mobile power generation.

“Originally the ARC was developed for large electrical drones to replace the heavy lithium batteries,” company CEO Alex Taits said. “This allows the drones to take advantage of the high energy density of kerosene fuel and greatly increase the range/ endurance. Later it became clear, that the ARC also has great applications as an auxiliary power unit (APU) for large fuel-based aircraft or as emergency power source during natural disasters.”

The ARC generator is based on a two-stage microturbine which has a maximum operating speed of 130,000 rpm – too high an input speed for any alternator to handle.

“The ARC utilizes two methods to bring the rpm down,” said Taits. “First, the second-stage turbine is decoupled from the first which provides significant reduction. From there, a state-of-the-art gearbox is used to bring the rpm down to its final value. Liquid fuel is circulated through this gearbox to keep it cool during operation.”

Aggreko has acquired Resolute Industrial, a major heating, ventilation and cooling (HVAC) rental business in North America for US$440 million.

The seller is AE Industrial Partners (AEI), a US private equity business. Resolute is based in Tampa, Florida and has around 300 employees and 38 locations across North America.

In the year to November 2022 it reported revenues of $146 million and EBITDA profits of $53 million.

The deal, which is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2023, will be funded by new debt facilities and is subject to regulatory approvals. Resolute’s business includes both sales and rental activities.

Its rental division, Mobile Air & Power Rentals, has been active since 1989 and rents air conditioners, heaters, chillers, dehumidifies and power.

The deal follows hard on the heels on an announcement late in 2022 that Aggreko was buying UK-based powerbank specialist Crestchic for £122 million.

AEI bought Resolute in March 2019 and since then has grown the business organically and through acquisitions, including American Equipment Group, DriExpress, Empire, All American Portable Air and Rocky Mountain Portable Cooling, all US companies..

Mike Smith, Chairman of Aggreko, said: “We are delighted to announce the acquisition of Resolute Industrial, a high-quality business specialising in HVAC solutions in North America, a key target market, and are excited by the additional growth opportunities that the acquisition brings to the group.”

Resolute’s CEO, Mike McGraw, said; “We are grateful for the outstanding partnership we have enjoyed with AEI and its support in growing our service offerings and geographic footprint.

“We look forward to moving ahead with our new owners as we continue to address the evolving needs of our customers.”

Since 2021 Aggreko has been owned by two major shareholders TDR Capital and I Squared Capital, both private equity businesses.

LONG-DURATION ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM FOR CALIFORNIA WILL REPLACE MOBILE DIESEL GENSETS

California will soon receive a long-duration energy storage system designed to integrate short-duration batteries and long-duration fuel cells. Energy Vault Holdings and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) are partnering to deploy and operate a utility-scale battery plus green hydrogen long-duration energy storage system (BH-ESS) with a minimum of 293 MWh of dispatchable carbon-free energy.

The BH-ESS is designed to power downtown and the surrounding area of the Northern California City of Calistoga for a minimum of 48 hours during planned outages and potential Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS), which is when the powerlines serving the surrounding area must be turned off for safety due to high wildfire risk.

PG&E submitted the project contract for review and approval to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on December 30, 2022, with a request for the issuance of a final resolution approving the project by May 15, 2023. The energy storage system will be owned, operated and maintained by Energy Vault while providing dispatchable power under a long-term tolling agreement with PG&E. The system’s capacity may be expanded to 700MWh, which would allow it to operate for longer without refueling, enabling further flexibility for PG&E and the City of Calistoga.

Energy Vault’s BH-ESS will replace the typical, mobile diesel generators used to energize PG&E’s Calistoga microgrid during broader grid outages. The project represents a major advance in community-scale microgrid development and a significant step toward realizing the CPUC’s vision of cleaner forms of microgrid generation.

“PG&E selected Energy Vault’s innovative hybrid architecture and design to create a cost-effective, community-scale, fully carbon-free microgrid that can store and dispatch on-demand renewable energy,” said Ron Richardson, Regional Vice President, North Bay and North Coast, PG&E.

“This breakthrough collaboration between PG&E and Energy Vault provides a template for future, renewable community-scale microgrids that successfully integrate third-party distributed energy resources, which is expected to cost customers less than the benchmark set by state regulators based on the alternative use of mobile diesel generators.”

The system is anticipated to provide carbon-free energy for the Calistoga community of more than 2,000 electric customers for a period of 48 hours with a hybrid architecture that will allow for grid forming and black start capabilities, with the potential to further expand the project’s capacity in the future up to 700MWh.