Power and backup supply
Power is not a side package. It is the condition of everything else.
Business line — Konect Power Systems
- Dominant constraint
- Power settled before the equipment it carries
The problem
A system is never worth more than the power that carries it.
A security system that is off watches nothing, a dark supervision room sees nothing, a business server without power delivers no service. A loss of supply produces exactly the effect of a failure in the system itself, and it happens more often.
The design follows from that: establish the load balance, separate what must hold from what can be shed, then size the replacement source on the first of those two sets. We then install and maintain the resulting installation.
Backup power chain, schematic
- 01Public grid
- Normal source, whose availability cannot serve as a design assumption.
- 02Generator set
- Replacement source, sized on the load assessment and its growth allowance.
- 03Automatic transfer switch
- Switches over without human intervention, with a delayed return to the grid.
- 04Main low-voltage board
- Protection, discrimination and separation of critical and ordinary feeders.
- 05UPS
- Covers the generator start-up window, during which no source is supplying.
- 06Critical loads
- Supervision, security, servers and links whose loss is an incident.
- 07Ordinary loads
- Sheddable feeders, whose interruption carries no operational consequence.
The marked points are reported to supervision: grid presence, source state, fuel level, engine hours and load-test results.
Services
What we deliver
- Load assessment and sizing
- Power balance, diversity factors, growth allowance, and the split between critical and sheddable loads.
- Generator sets
- Supply, civil works for the base, acoustic housing, fuel tank, ventilation and exhaust. The rating follows from the load assessment, not from a catalogue.
- Automatic transfer switching
- Transfer panels, protection, discrimination, earthing and delayed return to the grid.
- UPS and autonomy
- Cover for the generator start-up window, autonomy for critical loads, battery replacement on cycle.
- Integration with supervision
- Telemetry, alarms, fuel level, engine hours, results of periodic load tests.
- Maintenance
- Preventive and corrective contracts, parts, load testing, operating log.
Environments
Where we operate
- Government sites and administrations
- Diplomatic missions
- Mining and industrial sites
- Telecommunications operators
- Healthcare facilities
- Server rooms and data centres
Environments concerned
Solutions concerned
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Let us discuss the actual scope.
Describe the site, the dominant constraint and the deadline. We will say what requires a preliminary study and what can be committed directly.