According to AXA Insurance, 80% of businesses affected by a major incident, either never re-open, or close within 18 months.
Having a robust disaster recovery and business continuity plan, minimises this impact on the business and ultimately, the customer. Therefore, not only is disaster recovery planning important for you, it is important for your customers.
There are many terms that we come across every day in the power industry. Some are acronyms and others are industry terms. For the obvious to the ambiguous here are our thoughts.
This will be a post that we’ll update every time we think of any others. And if there is anything you’d like us to add just get in touch…
Below is a step by step guide to working through the processes.
Application Process
Step 1. Obtain the formal application document. Your local DNO may have their own preferred document, so you should contact them and ask for it.
G59 Embedded Generator Regulations
G59 is the regulation surrounding the connection of any form of generator device to run ‘in parallel’ or ‘synchronised’ with the mains electrical utility grid (National Grid). The regulation has its roots in Ofgem rules, and is administered as the Energy Networks Association Engineering Recommendation G59/2-1 “Recommendations for the connection of generating plant to the Distribution System of Licensed Distribution Network Operators – Amendment 1”.
This is relevant for all power generation, including combined heat and power units as well as generators being used for peak-lopping, or grid parallel use, greater than 16A per phase. For anything below this the Engineering recommendation G83/1-1 applies.
In years of doing projects with G59 protection shentongroup have often come across some popular myths, so we seek to dispel them here:-
“ I don’t need G59 Protection unless I intend to export power to the grid”.
Wrong. If you have any form of generator where the output is connected to the electrical systems in your building, and thus to the grid, you must protect it with a G59 relay device.
The last few weeks has seen media frenzy with soaring energy prices and a winter of blackouts predicted. The chances are you’ve reviewed your business continuity plan to make sure you’re safe but here’s some food for thought about how you can protect your business against the unknown.
Dedicated to staying the leaders in the maintenance of Standby Power, we have recently submitted our entire team of nationwide service engineers to the latest Deep Sea Electronics training program; an industry leading generator control module. Each of our engineers attended and passed this course.
Due to the continued rapid rise in CHP sales, the Power Care service team at shentongroup have invested in a further CHP service engineer. With CHP service contracts flooding in currently, further growth in this department is expected in the coming months as more and more companies realise the benefit of coming to shentongroup for their maintenance needs. The latest recruit is situated in the Bath area and covers the West of the country.
shentongroup are pleased to announce the award of industry leading accreditation, Constructionline. Following in depth analysis into the business systems and principles, Constructionline felt satisfied to award shentongroup the coveted accreditation. Jody Meek, Managing Director, felt “it was a further reward to our excellent team who are putting all they’ve got ino the company to continue to improve upon the quality of our service, systems and product”. This accreditation now compliments ISO 9001, ISO 14001, Achilles, SAFEcontractor and Chas.
To continue to offer our existing and new clients the quality service expected from shentongroup, it has become necessary to invest in another Sales Engineer for our Power Care, Power Rental and Power Call products. These areas of the business continue to show strong growth and in order to meet clients’ needs and site survey requests this addition to the team was key. “Coming with many years’ experience in the generator industry, this is a good move forward for shentongroup” says Andrew Fentiman, Sales Director.
