Generator Power has taken home the Environmental Product of the Year at the AMPS Awards for Excellence 2024 for our hybrid system!
On the 14th November 2024, our team attended the AMPS (The Association of Manufacturers and Suppliers of Power Systems) Awards for Excellence 2024, hosted at the De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms in London to celebrate the movements made to sustainability and innovation within the power and temporary power industry.
Environmental Product of the Year – Generator Power
Our team was thrilled to see that our hybrid generator system had been announced as the Environmental Product of the Year at this years AMPS Awards! We have been working tirelessly to perfect these systems and make more of them available for our customers.
Our hybrid energy system utilises solar power, battery storage and HVO fuel in the generator allowing for multiple avenues of GHG emission and fuel savings. Many of our telecoms customers have been able to fully appreciate the benefits of these systems, making use of the solar panels when the sun is shining, utilising battery storage for a the bulk of the time and HVO fuel when the batteries are in need of a recharge.
*Hybrid Power System demo day at our Stevenage location in 2023
How does our hybrid system work?
These systems have changed the game for remote sites since they’re able to reduce the volume of GHG emissions produced from using a generator on its own and its helped cut refuelling and maintenance requirements. As mentioned earlier, when the sun is bright, the solar arrays can charge the battery storage unit as well as contribute to the requirements of the site. On days when solar isn’t as helpful, the battery storage unit, which is housed inside one of our Powersafe containers alongside a generator unit, will do the majority of the work.
The hybrid system will feature one of our new battery storage models, the Atlas Copco ZBP 45 – 75 (45Kva – 75Kwh). The battery unit will manage the site load for as long as it can until it drops to 10%, (which will vary depending on your site requirements) and then will call for the generator’s aid. Once called, the generator is automatically started from a standby mode which uses pass-through (passing energy through the battery unit) to power the site load whilst charging the battery. The battery unit will then take over the site load again once fully charged. The generator will return to standby mode once the battery takes over the site load.
Through the last year we have been testing the capabilities of adding wind power to this unit to further add greener, sustainable power options to this solution.
The above image is of a much earlier version of the hybrid system, which was used at Three UK’s 100th Shared Rural Network (SRN) site. Our hybrid system was used to power the telecoms mast at the site in Scotland, which made decent use of the solar array attached to the Powersafe housing. Inside the Powersafe container was a 60Kva generator running on HVO fuel as well as a ZBP 45 – 45 battery storage unit.
Apprenticeship Programme of the Year – Sponsored by Generator Power
As well as adding some accolades to our own belt, we’re happy to celebrate the successes of others!
For many years now, Generator Power has sponsored the Apprenticeship Programme of the Year award at the AMPS awards for excellence and we are proud to it again this year. We’d like to congratulate WB Power Services who impressed the AMPS panel with their innovative and impactful apprenticeship programme. Generator Power Managing Director, Stephen Cardwell, assisted in presenting the award to the WB team alongside the AMPS panel.
Congrats Team WB!
AMPS Awards 2024 – The Full Ceremony
You can find out more about the AMPS Awards and the other winners of this year here.
