Why Take Emergency Generator Training?
Modern infrastructure, such as hospitals, data centres, industrial facilities and commercial buildings, often cannot tolerate power outages. To ensure reliable electrical redundancy, standby generators are installed. This emergency and standby power systems course covers how generators operate and how they integrate into overall electrical systems, with emphasis on emergency standby power.
Emergency standby power systems are installed to maintain critical operations when a normal power source fails, but poor design or maintenance can create hazards if not properly managed. Many facilities are legally required to provide standby power under NFPA codes, especially when life-safety systems require emergency power. Selecting the correct power supply and backup type is essential, as each system is designed for specific applications based on which equipment requires emergency power during outages.
You’ll learn how emergency generator standby power systems are used for emergency standby power, prime power, and grid-connected or micro-grid applications. Our course examines generator operation, supporting equipment (transfer switches, switchgear, auxiliary components), and real-world applications across different sectors. We focus especially on standby generation: how it kicks in when utility power fails, and how it supports critical loads.
Through practical examples and interactive sessions, the course teaches installation requirements, operation, maintenance, and testing of generator sets. You’ll understand how to read vendor drawings, size and specify generators, and manage generator energy, including synchronizing parallel sources and load-sharing, auxiliary systems, and heat recovery applications.
Course Overview
Specific requirements and recommendations for the installation, operation and maintenance of backup power generation equipment. Where to find critical information from professional sources such as the EGSA, IEEE, NFPA, NECA and NETA.
What backup system and emergency plan are best suited for your critical power system?
- How to read and understand vendor drawings and technical information for generators.
- How generators operate
- Supporting electrical equipment such as transfer switches, switchgear, and emergency power distribution
- Auxiliary generator equipment such as fuel tanks, silencers, ventilation, control equipment, gas detectio,n etc.
- How to work with parallel energy source:s Synchronizing procedures and load sharing.
- How to troubleshoot using a logical, systematic approach to isolate and repair generator problems
- Generator energy management and heat recovery applications
Learning Outcomes
- Understand how generators operate and the auxiliary equipment required to support their operation.
- Understand how generators can be integrated within an entire electrical distribution system.
- Learn about the different types of generators, including emergency standby, prime power, and continuous power.
- Learn about the different engine drivers and their applications.
- Learn how to size and specify generators.
- Gain the background needed to operate, maintain and test the various types of generator sets used in on-site power production. Common examples of facilities that heavily rely upon these systems include: data centers, hospitals, banks, airports, water treatment facilities, manufacturing and industrial plants, schools, sports stadiums, and commercial office buildings. As the need for reliable electrical power continues to grow, many firms are turning to on-site generators.
- Understand the practical application of operations and maintenance of standby and on-site power generation.
- Learn about thermal applications of power generators, such as cogeneration and combined-cycle operation.
