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It’s easy to take the reliability and resilience of our electricity supply for granted. With the flick of a switch, the lights turn on, our appliances work and our equipment allows our businesses to function. But dependability requires constant monitoring and collective management. In fact, to ensure our electricity system stays up and running, the National Grid spends over £1 billion per annum on balancing services, and has predicted that investment could reach £2 billion within five years. As renewables make greater contributions to our energy mix, balancing the grid is more challenging than ever. The National Grid is responsible for ensuring that energy supply matches demand in real time, such that the frequency remains balanced at 50Hz, plus or minus 1%. To balance the system, it must deliver sufficient capacity, including a capacity margin to guard against potential shortages of electricity.
Despite the resiliency approach and resilience measures that the National Grid puts in place, power cuts can and do happen, and therefore businesses are increasingly taking grid resilience improvements into their own hands. Some “mission critical power” organisations, such as hospitals, have a clear emergency imperative for site resilience where people’s lives depend on having reliable power at all times of day and night. Similarly, data centres need high levels of business continuity, ultimately driven by their service level agreements with customers. Within the industry, we’re also seeing high levels of interest from manufacturing businesses in certain geographical regions prone to voltage variations, where process failure results in lost production. Grid resilience therefore is so much more than uninterrupted power supplies, it’s also about business productivity, business continuity and the preservation of life.
From battery-based distributed storage solutions and battery replacements through to diesels generators for grid stabilisation, here at Dale, we have a great range of grid resilience system’s just perfect for your business power needs.
Installed, managed and maintained by a team of industry-accredited and award-winning engineering experts, they will advise you on the most suitable grid resilience product for your business, and the parts that will extend its lifespan for as long as possible. Available 24/7, 365 days of the year, they can also help with any unexpected loss of power, and even design and create custom UPS systems to take your power capabilities to the next level.
With Dale, all of your power grid resilience needs are kept at the forefront of our recommendations, so that the right systems are put in place, boosting grid integrity. Therefore, if you’re looking for guidance on grid resilience practices, processes, products and services, and are located across the UK in areas such as Scarborough, St Albans, Glasgow or Pen y Cymoedd, please speak to us today.