Utilities 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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University of Washington Adds to Standby Genset Fleet On Time and On Budget Through Cooperative Purchasing
Responsible for providing chilled water and emergency power to critical parts of the campus, the Campus Energy, Utilities and Operations department at the University of Washington acquired a fourth Cat® 3516 series standby generator set through cooperative purchasing to meet the university’s growing emergency power demand.
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Chattanooga Powers Smart Grid Network With Caterpillar Service And Support
Chattanooga Electric Power Board’s smart grid serves more than 180,000 homes and businesses in southeastern Tennessee as well as areas in north Georgia, aimed at reducing peak loads, overall electricity use, as well as operations and maintenance costs. The smart grid is connected by dual rings of nine supernodes supported by Cat® backup generators. EPB relies on a Customer Value Agreement and Extended Service Coverage through its Cat dealer, Stowers Machinery, to help maintain the gensets, ensuring they run when called upon.
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Service Agreement with Cat® Dealer Helps Iowa Utility Meet Requirements
Mount Pleasant Municipal Utilities depends on 12 Cat diesel generator sets to produce backup power should the entire city of 8,700 residents lose power. To comply with strict emissions requirements and keep the generators in top condition, Mount Pleasant counts on periodic testing and regular maintenance from Cat dealer Altorfer Power Systems as part of their long-term Customer Value Agreement.
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Volunteer Energy Cooperative Saves Thousands in Monthly Energy Costs
Volunteer Energy Cooperative delivers reliable power to its members across 17 counties in Tennessee. To keep costs low, the cooperative commissioned a Cat® G3412 gas generator set at its Decatur headquarters to help offset costs during peak demand periods.
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Cat® Cogeneration System Offers Energy Security for Fort Knox
Trillions of cubic feet of natural gas trapped beneath Fort Knox are now fueling Cat® generator sets, which provide prime and standby power for the base and – through a process known as combined heat and power – heat and cool the installation’s 400-bed hospital as well.
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Altalink Replaces Aging Transmission Line With Help Of Cat® Rental Power
To replace an aging transmission line at Banff National Park, AltaLink partnered with Cat® dealer Finning Canada to commission a temporary power plant with six Cat diesel rental power generator sets, complete with Cat Connect Remote Asset Monitoring to ensure the gensets continued running for three months while they completed the project.
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Managing Peak Demand With Cat® Generators
Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department strives to provide reliable power at reasonable rates to around 13,000 customers. Working with local dealer Milton Cat, Wakefield installed two Cat® G3520H generator sets to manage electrical demand more effectively.
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Southwestern Energy Saves $700,000 in 11 Months with Cat® Dynamic Gas Blending™
To minimize high operating costs from diesel fuel, SWN turned to Caterpillar Oil & Gas and Cat dealer Riggs Cat for a dual-fuel solution – Dynamic Gas Blending (DGB™).
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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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Cat® Generators Provide Efficient Power Solutions to Rural Oklahoma
People’s Electric Cooperative uses Cat® generator sets to provide efficient power to rural areas in south central Oklahoma at reasonable rates. PEC primarily runs the gensets when the cost of generating their own power is lower than purchasing grid power.
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Cat® Generators Expand Power for New Utah Plant
Provo Power needed help reducing smog and emissions for their Utah Valley community. Using Cat generator sets, they constructed a new plant to produce cleaner air for the city.
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Cat® Solar Demonstration Project Powers in Bulk
In order to expand its power generation, IMEA Rantoul implemented a solar power project that generated remarkable results.
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Cat® Gas Generator sets Power High Altitude Utility in Extreme Conditions
Heber Light & Power keeps the electricity flowing through a peak load shaving effort that includes nine gas generator sets from Caterpillar. Around the clock, analysts at Heber Light & Power examine hour-by-hour wholesale energy prices to determine the most cost-effective combination of potential power sources to meet demand at any given time.
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75% Of Residents With No Electricity
Myanmar had one of the lowest electrification rates in the world and development increased demand. A major energy crisis left millions of residents without electricity. A high-quality and high-performance power plant was needed quickly. MSP Cat and Caterpillar delivered 13 Cat CG260 gas generator sets and additional installation components. The $46.5 million project was completed on time, and the 50 MW power plant is supporting the national power grid.
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Cat® gensets provide reliable emergency power
When it is complete, Markham Centre will be a development of 30 million square feet including residential, commercial and institutional buildings, and home to over 41,000 residents and 39,000 employees. Whether the Cat fleet is providing emergency power to our customers, or grid power, or thermal energy for our heating system, high reliability is the goal for MDE and our suppliers.
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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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Cat® gensets power island community independently and reliably
Ensuring power to an island community takes the commitment of a strong company and the most reliable equipment available. The C175-16 runs continuously, providing the island with 1.3 to 2 MW of power. The island’s peak power need of 3.3 MW is met with the addition of one of the 3516 generator sets.
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Integrated power systems help protect isolated Pacific Islands
The power plant needed to meet the demands of a tropical location, and include a comprehensive Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system to provide local and remote monitoring and control capabilities.
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Cat® gensets use natural gas to power remote African community
In an effort to meet the Mtwara and Lindi regions' need for power, Artumas Group, Inc., designed a comprehensive gastopower project, tapping the abundant natural gas resources in the Mnazi Bay Concession. It took a cooperative effort between the local Cat® dealer and the installation and management team to ensure the successful commissioning of the power plant, notes Gathercole.
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Cat® Gensets Increased Efficiency of Cogeneration System
The cogeneration system was put into service in 2004 and since that time has been used to generate the power need to cover the basic load. The remaining energy demand continues to be met by the four conventional heating boilers. The Cat G3520C natural gas generator set meets the heating needs of about 2,100 households, and generates 16.5 million kilowatt hours of electricity per year. Most of that energy is fed into the local power grid and sold.
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Great Service and Support Ensure Gensets Supply Reliable Power
SEDCO engaged Caterpillar as the genset provider for its 5 MW natural gas-based power plants, primarily as a captive source of power exporting to grid. Two CAT® G3612 generator sets were chosen to power the project, based on the maximum uptime and ability of the engine to run continuously on field gas.
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Growing town runs on gensets for peak power support and backup
In addition to cost savings for the city, the Cat® generator sets provide peak power production support and backup power in case of a citywide blackout. During power outages, city runs on gensets, the Cat 3516B diesel generators provide the ability to block load segments of the city's distribution system and then transition to the G3520C natural gas generator sets.
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Cat® gensets provide power during peak times and emergencies
To help overcome its growing challenges and provide power, Santa Clara turned to its local Cat® dealer, Ken Green of Wheeler Power Systems, headquartered in Salt Lake City. Wheeler Power Systems has been the authorized Caterpillar distributor for the state of Utah for 45 years, with responsibility for sales and product support in Utah, central eastern Nevada and southwest Wyoming.
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