Electricity + Control May 2015

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STANDBY + BACK-UP
Added capacity when demand is high
Business has been growing steadily since Barloworld Power,
Caterpillar’s southern African dealer, opened its power rental
operation in CapeTown in October 2014 – and it’s not all about
load shedding.
Barloworld Power Rental is well established in Gauteng,
KwaZulu-Natal and Angola.The decision to extend to CapeTown
was based on demand from customers wanting reliable, backed
up power solutions not only due to load shedding but also to
provide additional capacity in high demand periods in agriculture
and tourism in particular.The business rents and supports a wide
range of Cat generator sets as well as industrial lighting solu-
tions from AllightSykes. All generators are housed in sound at-
tenuated, weather proof canopies with the smaller sets mounted
on trailers for mobility. Generator sets can be synchronised to
provide a range of solutions.Focal points of the new CapeTown
power rental business in Bellville are naval and marine rentals,
the growing oil and gas sector, the film industry, tourism and
entertainment, as well as agriculture, says Brendon Hart, rental
and used consultant in the fledgling CapeTown business. Hart is
responsible for the Eastern Western and Northern Cape as well
as Namibia. “We currently have more than 8,5 MVA of rental
power in operation the western cape alone, 4 MVA in Namibia
and 2 MVA in Eastern Cape.” He adds that while load shedding is
causingmore businesses to consider back-up power, the secret of
the success enjoyed by the power rental business in CapeTown
has a lot to do with the reliability of Cat power systems and the
support provided by Barloworld Power. “The agricultural sector
has been proactive in seeking standby power solutions for peri-
ods of high workload such as harvesting in the grape industry.
Enquiries: Shivani Naidoo. Email
For UPS back-up
“Trojan’s Reliant AGM is specifically engineered for deep-cycling
applications, unlike most AGM batteries on the market today
which are designed for dual-purpose or standby applications,
such as UPS back-up,” said Dave Godber,Trojan Battery’s execu-
tive vice president of sales and marketing. “Trojan has focused
on deep-cycle technology longer than any other battery manu-
facturer in the industry and has utilised our extensive expertise
and knowledge in developing the industry’s most reliable deep-
cycle AGM battery.”“Trojan’s Reliant line of true deep-cycle
AGM batteries feature elements that offer a new direction in
AGM technology,” said Gordon Beckley, senior vice president of
engineering and quality assurance atTrojan Battery. “As the only
true deep-cycle AGM battery on the market today, Reliant AGM
is a completely new AGM design, which our engineering team
has been developing for the last several years.”
Enquiries: Kari Garcia. Email