How To Prepare for a Power Outage

Is your business or facility ready for a power outage? Whether planned events for maintenance or emergencies that arise due to increasingly erratic weather and growing demands on the grid, power outages can significantly disrupt your operations if you’re not properly prepared. Take steps today to keep your facility operating when grid power fails by making Caterpillar generators a part of your power outage plan.

Why Power Outage Preparedness Is Important

While some power outages are brief, many last much longer and can occur without warning. Power outage preparation for your business operations today will keep your facilities operating during future outages. Act now and create a business continuity plan for power outages that will empower your business with strategies to minimise disruptions the next time there's a loss of power.

  • Provide life-saving services
  • Keep products and inventory safe
  • Maintain revenue
  • Support transportation
  • Prevent food from spoiling
  • Deliver clean and safe drinking water
  • Ensure people keep working
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How Can Caterpillar Help?

After determining power requirements, your Cat® dealer can help you formulate a business continuity plan to prepare for power outages. This plan will be customised to your site and meet your power and budget requirements so you can keep your facility running no matter what.

Depending on your needs, your Cat dealer can provide:

  • On-site generator sets
  • Generator rental solutions
  • Combination of ownership and rental solutions

Purchase a Generator Set

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  • A Cat power generator system designed to your specifications
  • Backup power already installed prior to a power outage
  • Dealer expertise and services for the life of your generator set
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Generator for Hire

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  • Engineered for easy transport and fast installation
  • Designed to work alone or in redundancy
  • Meet your greatest power need with less investment
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Cat® GC Gensets for Backup Power

  • D100 GC
    Maximum Rating
    100 ekW
    100 ekW
    Minimum Rating
    100 ekW
    100 ekW
    Emissions/Fuel Strategy
    U.S. EPA Cert., Tier 3
    U.S. EPA Cert., Tier 3

    D100 GC

    Producing reliable power of 100 ekW at 60 Hz, our D100 GC diesel generator sets designed to ISO 8528-5 transient response requirements. All D100 GC generator sets meet EPA Stationary Emergency (Tier 3) emissions standards.

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  • D500 GC (60 Hz)
    Maximum Rating
    500 ekW
    500 ekW
    Minimum Rating
    500 ekW
    500 ekW
    Emissions/Fuel Strategy
    EPA Stationary Emergency
    EPA Stationary Emergency

    D500 GC (60 Hz)

    The D500 GC diesel generator sets have been developed to meet your needs in standby applications. Producing reliable power of 500 ekW at 60 Hz, meeting ISO 8528-5 transient response requirements and built to accept 100 % rated load in one step. The engines are certified for U.S. EPA Certified for Stationary Emergency Use Only (Tier 2 or Tier 3 Nonroad Equivalent Emission Standards).

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Hybrid Microgrid Solutions

Provide a balanced approach to the energy transition by integrating renewable energy, storage, and conventional power generation.

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Hybrid Microgrid Solutions
Hybrid Microgrid Solutions


 

What to Expect From Your Cat Dealer

Click on the button to fill out a short form. An experienced dealer will contact you to discuss a custom solution and pricing options that best suit your needs. 

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industries & applications

We are dedicated to developing a power systems solution that meets your needs, regardless of the application.

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Generator Set Sizing Calculators

Caterpillar Electric Power now has two tools available for sizing gensets in any application. 

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The Cat Dealer Network

The Cat dealer network makes it easy for customers around the world to get parts and services support. With the help of Cat dealers, you can keep doing the work. 

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The Cat Dealer Network