Emergency Power Systems Explained
Emergency Power Systems are crucial for maintaining power during grid outages, ensuring operations continue smoothly across various settings. Key points include: 1. Emergency Lighting Systems: Must last up to 4 hours legally, often using UPS systems for longer durations. 2. Lifts: Emergency power ensures they are operational for evacuation and emergency services. 3. Surveillance Systems: Require continuous power, often supported by UPS and generators. 4. Healthcare Facilities: Need uninterrupted power for critical operations, life support, and to prevent evacuation crises. 5. Distribution Centres: Emphasize the need for backup systems to avoid business disruption and financial loss within 60 seconds. Overall, emergency power is vital for safety, continuity, and operational resilience.
Emergency Power Systems are installed to ensure power during a GRID power outage. Power continuity engineer on emergency call out. Emergency Power can be battery or generator power to support, lights, lifts, switches, DATA, critical systems
Here we explain each use of Emergency Power:
Emergency Lighting Systems
Last for up to 4 hours by UK law.
Each light unit contains a battery supplied by a trickle feed power supply to keep them permanently at 100% capacity. Larger systems require an Uninterruptible Power Supply solution, usually consisting of a UPS system with batteries. The length of time can last anything from 4 to 8 hours. Emergency Power Systems have many more uses.
Emergency Power Systems for Lifts
In the event of power failure or emergency, lifts need to be available for the emergency services and/or to allow evacuation of lifts. Generator Power Systems also facilitate uninterrupted use of the lifts in your building.
There is no requirement to evacuate a building if the emergency power standby systems are supporting the building.
Emergency Power Systems for Surveillance Systems
CCTV, power-controlled entry systems and external barriers all require 24-7 power. Uninterruptible power supplies and standby diesel generators can be useful to provide seamless NO BREAK power for any length of time. Moreover, to offer true resilience for serious power protection these need backup power from a fully installed generator system.
Emergency Power Systems for Hospitals, Schools and Care Homes
People need power. To say nothing of vulnerable people especially, require 100% power. Operations are the obvious area requiring uninterruptible power.
What about life support? What about our young ones? The elderly? In like manner, heating and lighting need to be considered.
Of course, evacuating a care home can be a traumatic experience for the staff and for the elderly residents. Standby power protection systems eliminate the need for any evacuation providing reassurance that when the inevitable happens, your power is absolutely protected.
Emergency Power Systems for Distribution Centres
When the power goes down, importantly how do you continue to operate in the dark? Getting the people out is covered by emergency lighting, but what about the business? The business STOPS. The profit STOPS. Your organisation STOPS serving the customers. The result is – loss of earnings, and some customers will never return. Backup Power Systems will ensure that within 60 seconds your operation is genuinely 100% operational with NO loss of profit and without any DISRUPTION. Uninterruptible Power Supplies and Standby Diesel Generators will always ensure that you never lose customers and business due to circumstances beyond your control.
NO power- NO business. It’s that simple. Yet, how many on your board of directors fully understand the implications of a power loss?
If you’re looking for Emergency Power Protection, call us on 0845 055 8455, we’re here to help!