Municipality Testimonials
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Utah Utility Teams Up With Caterpillar To Revamp Hydroelectric Plant
Utah Municipal Power Agency worked with Cat® dealer Wheeler Power Systems to overhaul its hydroelectric plant in Manti, including implementing Cat Switchgear and controls as well as remote monitoring.
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Town Of Berlin Lowers Energy Costs With Peak Shaving Initiatives
When energy rates hit a peak high in Berlin, Maryland, the town implemented energy-saving initiatives to help offset costs during periods of peak demand. This included working with Cat® dealer Carter Machinery to replace an aging diesel generator set with a new Cat G3520 gas generator set, which is ideal for peak shaving applications.
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Security That Depends on Reliable Backup Power
The medium-security Cumberland County Jail holds up to 212 inmates awaiting trial or sentencing, while also housing electronic monitoring and control systems as well as administrative offices. To keep the facility secure during a power outage, county officials turned to Cat dealer Stowers Machinery to install a Cat GC diesel generator set designed to deliver performance with a minimal footprint.
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Cat® generators support Dubai Metro system
Carrying more than 170,000 passengers each day, the Dubai Metro system depends on 20 Cat® generator sets to provide reliable backup power to its electrified rails. Local Cat dealer Al-Bahar supplied the gensets and performed the installation, commissioning, testing, and maintenance and provides ongoing technical training to Dubai Metro engineers and technicians.
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Cat® Generator Helps Hinckley Stay One Step Ahead
When the Hinckley Wastewater Treatment Plant needed a new source of reliable backup power for its facility, it turned to Cat® dealer Ohio Cat for support. Its new 600kW Cat C18 diesel generator set was put to the test in 2016, powering the entire facility for nearly five days during an unscheduled power outage.
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City of Lehi Lowers Energy Costs with Peak Shaving
As the population of Lehi, Utah grows, Lehi City Power needed a way to offset the high cost of power from the grid. With support from their Cat® dealer, Lehi developed a power generation facility featuring three Cat G3520H generator sets capable of producing nearly 10 percent of the power needs for 20,000 customers.
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Superstorm experience prompts bi-fuel option
In an event like Sandy, with a 10-day power outage, a bi-fuel system equipped with a multi-day tank of diesel fuel would provide full-time emergency power without having to fill the diesel fuel more than once. This bi-fuel solution should keep the City of Linden run ready for decades to come.
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Cat® Power is Always Ready
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina brought storm surges between 12 and 15 feet to the New Orleans area. In 2012, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a contract to Caterpillar to build three permanent canal closure and pump stations to reduce the risk posed by hurricane storm surges at the mouth of Lake Pontchartrain.
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Cat® C175-16 gensets propel small town into the future
Foley determined the city’s precise needs and developed a system that would last well into the future. Their team of expert technicians crafted a custom solution for Johnson City. They installed two Cat C175-16 diesel generator sets that would enable a steady revenue stream and fast-start capability for emergency situations.
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Clean energy plant nets huge savings
Recognized as the “Biogas Project of the Year” by the American Biogas Council, learn more here about how Monogram utilized food waste to power a Cat Biogas genset.
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Cat® Power Stands Up to Hurricane Sandy
When Hurricane Sandy made landfall, the Joint Meeting of Essex & Union Counties wastewater plant treated all the raw sewage that came into the facility during the storm. None of the treatment tanks overflowed, even when the nearby Elizabeth River and the Arthur Kill saltwater channel flowed in.
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Cat backup power safeguards 90,000 sq. foot public safety complex
The Leon County Government and the City of Tallahassee combined the 911 dispatch and emergency response functions from both locations at a new 90,000-sq-ft Public Safety Complex to improve emergency response time. To provide support for all emergency service functions, the complex requires on-site reliable standby power to continue operations in case of power loss.
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Replacing Utility Poles, Company Parallels Cat® Power Modules
Chester, California prepared to undergo a 72-hour power shutdown so that Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) could replace power poles and their cross-arms. PG&E’s North Valley General Construction Line Division (GC Line) contracted the local authorized Cat® dealer to provide temporary power to the town during this shutdown.
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Water Treatment Facility Uses Biogas to Fuel Gensets
The Encina Water Pollution Control Facility (EWPCF) uses an anaerobic digester to reduce wastewater solids. The biogas is used to fuel four Cat® G3516 engine generator sets supplied by local Cat dealer Hawthorne Power Systems
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