Power4 launches emergency power service for UK market

Power4, a specialist in the hire, sale and maintenance of generators, temporary power and lighting solutions, has launched a four hour emergency power response service to organisations across the UK.  Within four hours of an organisation experiencing a power outage, Power4 will have a back-up power solution up and running to ensure business continuity.

Explains Paul Wilson, managing director of Power4: “It is all well and good businesses spending significant funds on IT back-up systems, but a secondary power solution is at the core of any business continuity plan. It is because of this we launched a specialist Business Continuity Planning unit in January and this is the first of a number of specialist services that will be provided through this division.”

The service, ‘Power 4 Continuity’, involves a Power4 consultant carrying out an initial assessment of an organisation’s power needs, which includes looking at the amount of power required, conducting a risk assessment, assessing the best place to position the hook-up point(s) and generator(s), and looking at cabling requirements.  Once the relevant preparation work has been carried out, a generator simply hooks up and activates the back-up power solution.

Ten organisations across the public and private sectors have already signed up to this service in the last three months.  Each customer is given a specialist 24/7 helpline number to call if their operations suffer a power outage.  A generator (or generators) is then dispatched from one of Power4’s offices throughout the UK , with a guarantee of being there within at least four hours.  In addition, Power4 carries out regular checks on the back-up power solution to ensure it is operational when needed.

Concludes David Sanderson, head of the Business Continuity Planning unit at Power4: “In many cases, especially in busy city centres, it is not practical or cost effective to have a permanent power generator on-site.  By offering this service, organisations have the flexibility and re-assurance of a ‘plug in and play’ back-up solution.

“All of our technical engineers are qualified to deliver generators and consequently, although we say four hours, over 50 percent of generators are delivered and activated within just two hours.”

•Date: 4th April 2006• Region: UK• Type: Article •Topic: Power management
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