February, 1:40 in the morning. The storm took the grid at dinner time and the grower figured the outage would be short, like always. By the time his p…

Thursday, 3 p.m., a plant electrical room. A 500 kVA diesel set, a live utility feed, and a paralleling breaker between them. The operator closed the …

The train stopped between stations at 6:40 on a Friday evening. Lights flickered twice, then went out. For maybe eleven minutes, four hundred people s…

The auditor asked for two years of power-interruption records. We handed her a thick folder — every monthly start test, every load bank run, every bat…

The transfer test went perfectly. Both generators cranked, synced, and took the building in eleven seconds — well inside the target. The facilities ma…

The lights went out across half the province at 2:14 in the morning. I wasn’t in the control room when it happened, but I’ve spent enough …

Fog. The thick kind, where the far end of the apron disappears completely. I was standing next to an airfield electrician at 1:40 in the morning, both…

The call came at 2:47 in the morning. A toolpusher on a workover rig, seventy kilometers from the nearest paved road. His diesel generator had tripped…

A plant manager asked me this exact question three years ago, standing next to a 500 kVA standby set that had run eleven hours in its entire life. &#8…

It was a Tuesday morning, and nothing was on fire. A facilities manager I know called me about his generator — not because it had failed, but because …

The third pump killed it. 3:40 on a Tuesday afternoon. A municipal water plant — the kind with three 90 kW booster pumps in duty/standby/assist rotati…

Friday night, 7:40 p.m. A summer storm took down the utility feed to a three-story shopping mall I’d commissioned the generator for two years ea…