# Capstone Microturbines Power Through Hurricane Sandy

- Link: https://greenlivingguy.com/2012/11/capstone-microturbines-power-through-hurricane-sandy/
- Published: 2012-11-06T21:42:19-05:00
- Author: greenlivingguy

CHATSWORTH, Calif., Nov. 2, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Capstone Turbine Corporation(
[www.capstoneturbine.com](https://www.globenewswire.com/StaticPage/PageNotFound))(
Nasdaq:[CPST](https://www.globenewswire.com/Home/404Page)), the world’s leading 
clean technology manufacturer of microturbine energy systems. For they announced
today that its microturbine systems continued to operate during and after Hurricane
[Sandy](https://greenlivingguy.com/2013/01/noaas-storm-chasing-robot-survives-sandy-to-report/)
slammed into the eastern seaboard this week.

# People Got Hit Hard

News agencies reported on Tuesday morning that a peak total of over eight million
electrical utility customers were in the dark. The Northeast was hardest hit. However
significant outages occurred in northern Ohio. Moreover and sporadic outages occurred
as far away as northwest Indiana and northern Georgia. In some regions, power failures
were nearly total.

Governor Andrew Cuomo said that 90% of Long Island families were without power Tuesday.
One of New Jersey’s utilities reported that 86% of its 1.1 million customers were
without power Tuesday morning. So that figure was still 86% early Wednesday.

On the contrary, from all indications that Capstone Turbine. For it has received
from its customers and local distribution partners thumbs up. For they installed
Capstone systems and continued to operate seamlessly. Especially during and after
the worst storm to strike the East Coast in decades.

## Capstone applications that weathered the storm ranged from shale gas installations to luxury hotels.

In addition office buildings, data centers, health care facilities and industrial
customers. That’s from Virginia to New Jersey and New York to Massachusetts.

Some installations played critical roles during the crisis. All that downed power
lines and left millions of people without power for days. Salem Community College
in Salem County, New Jersey. For it is a Red Cross Disaster Relief Shelter. The 
site consists of three Capstone C65 microturbines. Those that provide heating, cooling
and emergency power to the critical facility.  During Hurricane Sandy, the shelter
was fully operational. Especially as it was continuously powered and heated by the
on-site microturbines.

## E-Finity DG

Capstone Mid-Atlantic distributor E-Finity Distributed Generation, LLC was able 
to continue its critical operations. All during Hurricane Sandy. That’s despite 
losing utility power for close to 24 hours utilizing a Capstone C65 liquid fuel 
turbine.  The unit was able to maintain E-Finity’s remote monitoring system and 
data center. Thats to help dozens of customers monitor and control their Capstone
systems. All during the storm.

E-Finity was able to continue to support Capstone users like Solers, Inc.. For they
are an innovative information technology software solutions provider for the U.S.
government. Located in Arlington, Virginia whose technical experts partner with 
the Department of Defense, intelligence community. Moreover and other federal agencies.
The site utilizes five C65 Secure Power turbines. Those that provide dedicated power
to its data center.

### Natural Gas Production

It was the same story in the oil and gas shale plays where Capstone microturbines
have been installed. That as emergency power or standalone power. All for various
natural gas production and transmission facilities. That’s throughout the Marcellus
and Utica Shale Plays.

So with the impending storm, several critical gas utility sites switched away from
their local utility feed to their Capstone microturbines to ride out the storm, 
while other sites, where Capstone microturbines are their sole source of electric
power, were left un-phased during the event. “The reliability of Capstone microturbines
prevented these facilities from being taken offline and allowed the gas suppliers
to continue to serve their customers uninterrupted throughout the height of the 
storm,” added Beiter.

Cory Glick, President of Reliable Secure Power Systems (RSP Systems), Capstone’s
distributor for New York and Connecticut, indicated that all Capstone units in his
area were performing as designed. That’s with several customers continuing to conduct
business despite experiencing heavy storm damage. “One very critical site that was
hit hard by the storm was a data center on West 17th Street in New York City known
as Public Interest. Public Interest has a C65 dual mode microturbine that worked
perfectly by seamlessly picking up the data center load when the utility suddenly
blacked out.

The servers never went down, and the site is still running today thanks to the Capstone
turbine.

#### Christian Health Care Center

Another very critical site that performed flawlessly was the Christian Health Care
Center located in Wyckoff, New Jersey, which is a 292-bed assisted living facility
that never lost power thanks to the onsite Capstone product,” added Glick.

**_“RSP Systems’ Capstone business had been gaining momentum in recent months before
this week’s storm, with several new installations under construction for marquee
customers like DHL and the Palace Hotel in midtown Manhattan,” stated Glick. I fully
anticipate that this terrible storm will only add to customers’ interest in onsite
distributed generation as a way to not only save on their annual energy bills but
also to protect them against prolonged utility outages like we are seeing right 
now as many people in the area will be without power for a week or more,” added 
Glick._**

Joel R. Wilson, CEO of OP Energy Systems, a company that currently owns and operates
two Capstone installations for Class A office buildings in Manhattan, reported that
both sites were fully operational and without incident.

_“This storm is a great example why buying energy the way your parents did and your
grandparents did may not be the best solution from both a cost and reliability perspective
as customers who have embraced on-site distributed generation technologies like 
microturbines were much better prepared to weather this storm than customers that
continue to rely solely on traditional centralized power plants, sub-stations and
poles and wires,” added Jamison._

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