BY DAWN M. GESKE
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he power generation market has a wide breadth of standby and continuous power gener- ation applications — each one differ- ent from the next. These unique and sometimes challenging projects have very specific requirements that re- quire very customized packages, including custom-built enclosures, specially wired control panels and custom-manufactured switchgear and load banks. In addition, the growing size and power output of these power generation packages make transport and installation of engines, genera- tors, switchgear, load banks and fuel tanks a challenge. Professional Power Products Inc. (PPPI) specializes in unique power generation applications, creating com- pletely customized on-site power plants. Working with engine and gen- erator set dealers and distributors such as Caterpillar, Cummins, Kohler, Detroit Diesel, GE and Waukesha Engine, PPPI uses, in most cases, the dealer’s engine and generator, inte- grating it into an enclosure with the other required power components. “We work with a number of different engine manufacturers to design and package their product to include any- thing from an enclosure, fuel tank, load banks, paralleling switchgear and controls,” said Ken Trent, vice president of sales at PPPI. “We build,
Working with engine and generator dealers and distributors, Professional Power Products Inc. (PPPI) customizes complete power plants, manufacturing many of the components such as enclosures, UL 142 and 2085 rated fuel tanks from 25 to 15,000 gal. capacities, load banks, switchgear and gen-set control panels in-house.
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