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VA Medical Center2020-12-08T21:52:16+00:00
# VA MEDICAL CENTER
 The gen set is up and running at the VA Hospital, and it’s receiving maintenance checks every 250 hours. Ongoing maintenance helps to keep costs down, and the unit is expected to last 30 to 40 years while running more than 270,000 hours.
In 2016, the VA Hospital was in search of a way to reduce their electrical import from Rocky Mountain Power while also supplementing the heating system. Wheeler won the proposal for a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) generator set, Heat Recovery unit and ancillary support equipment. Additionally, Wheeler worked for several years for the install of a $2.4 million 2.5-Megawatt natural gas generator set. This unit can be up to 88 percent efficient by recovering heat generated through exhaust heat, jacket-water heat and after-cooler heat. Natural gas is ten times cheaper than diesel, and the technology has continued to improve. The performance of natural gas generators has almost caught up to diesel generators by responding fast and taking on loads very well.
Originally, the government was searching for a 4-Megawatt generator set. Per Wheeler’s proficiency, it was shown to the governmental engineer that a 2.5 Megawatt would meet the need. This resulted in significant cost savings for the hospital, and it deepened Wheeler’s relationship with the government per our honesty and increasing their received value. The gen set is now up and running at the VA Hospital, and it’s receiving maintenance checks every 250 hours. Ongoing maintenance helps to keep costs down, and the unit is expected to last 30 to 40 years while running more than 270,000 hours.
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Disaster Preparedness2021-03-18T14:49:19+00:00
# DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
Electricity is never more scarce and precious than after a disaster. Lights are out, telephones disabled, businesses shut down. People may need food, water, heat, and medical attention. There can be no real recovery without power, yet no one can predict when utility service will come back
### DON’T WAIT. START PREPARING NOW
## The best time to prepare for any disaster is before it happens.
Backup power plays a critical role in recovery from all manner of disasters. Rental generator sets of all sizes can help sustain facilities that safeguard public health, safety, and welfare, and extended utility outages. In addition, rental power can bring life back to schools, stores, offices, factories, and homes while rebuilding moves forward, and the utility restores the grid.
Especially in the early stages, the speed of recovery depends on how well local authorities and private enterprises have plannedfor permanent or rental emergency power.
Emergency response experts advise against trying to plan for a specific event, such as a fire, flood, or tornado. Instead, they recommend looking at the common results of any disaster. Significant among these is loss of electric power. Extended power failures have many causes, some natural and others man-made, some predictable and others difficult even to imagine.
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