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| 23-04-2010 | |
| Reflections... | |
One of the frustrating things about being a Projects house that deals with very sensitive customers is that we can't always pass the story on. Like the time that 45 minutes after we commissioned a generating set for a very sensitive banking client, their power failed for the first time in 25 years. The client estimated that we saved him £150K that first morning.
Or the zoo which asked for a Generating Set that transmitted no vibration and very proudly told us that "they were extremely satisified with the vibration performance as none of the keepers had reported any interruption in mating habits".
And finally, the client who was so pleased with his mobile Generating Set that he wanted to run it all the time and asked if he could use it when he was towing it up the M1. We were a little concerned at the length of the cables. |
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| 23-04-2010 | |
| AMPS Appointments | |
WARDPOWER are pleased to annouce the recent appointment of Projects Director Keith Marshall as the Chairman of the Technical Committee of AMPS and also the Vice-Chairman of AMPS.
Said Keith "We're living in a marketplace that's changing all the time and the pace of technical change is only increasing. We see AMPS as a superb way to stay in touch with that change and to have our say in influencing it". |
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| 23-04-2010 | |
| National Grid Gas | |
Hot on the heels of a 50th unit for National Grid Electricity comes a first two units for National Grid Gas. Won through a one year tender process, WARDPOWER have secured orders for 910KVA and 665KVA containerised units for NG Gas Compressor Stations in Scotland.
Working for National Grid Gas is not an easy one: Through the G17 process, rigourous external design assessment is conducted of the entire package. Add an environment where Health & Safety are somewhat understandably paramount, and the stage is set for a challenge!
We like challenges like that! |
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| 23-04-2010 | |
| The First! | |
To achieve Type Registered Status with National Grid for Diesel Generating Sets under NG TS 3.12.3 Issue 7. WARDPOWER are pleased to announce that we are the first UK Company to achieve full Type Registered Status for their range of Generating Sets to meet NG rigorous requirements.
Said Projects Director, Keith Marshall "It has been a very long and demanding process that has seen us blowing control panels up, drawing, re-drawing, testing and generally perfecting sets to get to this point. For a Projects based manufacturer such as ourselves, where every unit is normally unique, it has been a big deal for us get to such a high level of standardisation and equally as big for our Supplier base who have supported us wonderfully throughout. In total, it's cost us probably £100K to achieve this".
The initial WARDPOWER range that has been Type Registered includes units at 254KVA, 285KVA, 358KVA and 416KVA with units waiting for approval at 513KVA, 575KVA and 723KVA. Further units are planned at either end of this range. |
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| 23-04-2010 | |
| The 50th! | |
| WARDPOWER are proud to annouce the order for their 50th Generating Set for National Grid! A 637KVA Unit for the South Western Electricity Alliance, this also takes the number of Type Registered Generating Sets offered by WARDPOWER to 7. Said Projects Director Keith Marshall "In any specials market the ultimate indicator of your quality and your product is repeat business. There's nothing that we can feel about this but proud". |
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| 08-10-2009 | |
| The New Wardpower Website | |
| Or www (the wonderful world of Wardpower) has been proudly released this week!. Guaranteed to be 100% google, pop-up and irritating music free, nobody is going to try and sell you viagra on this site in the next 10 minutes. Not unless you want them to. |
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| 08-10-2007 | |
| The Great Flood! | |
| Part of our building is famous. It was the part that the wheelie bin kept floating by on numerous news trailers. We're making light of it but we had a very lucky escape and most of our neighbours and this part of Sheffield did not. We did do our bit for the local community though; Both the National Grid Sub-stations at Neepsend and Sheffield City were put out of service by the flood. Both only had power for repairs because the Wardpower Generating Sets on them kept them going. In the case of Neepsend, the set had been underwater to the alternator bearing (half way up for the accountants) but started first time when the water had dropped enough to allow a start attempt.
The National Grid problems led to the two highlights of the flood for us (not that it had much by way of highlights for anybody): One of our engineers was offered the hand in marriage of the National Grid engineer who was trying to co-ordinate repairs out of gratitude for the way in which he handled the problem. We're waiting for the photo before we collectively decide if he should accept this offer. The other is an epic tale of daring do to rival the Odyssey involving Rob Stuart (one of our Production Engineers) a mountain bike and a packet of bacon... |
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