We supply power to CECOEL, the Big Brother of Spain’s grid.
The CECOEL (Electricity Control Centre) controls every inch of the national electricity grid to ensure that the supply is perfect.
This organisation, dependent on Red Eléctrica, has its headquarters in Alcobendas (Madrid).
This operations centre performs real-time supervision of all the generation and transmission facilities of the national electricity system. The CECOEL operates 24/7, 365 days a year.
All the instructions for the correct programming of national electricity production and international exchanges to meet variations in electricity demand are issued from its offices. It also issues the operating instructions for the elements of the transmission grid to ensure that the control variables remain within the established parameters.
CECOEL secures the quality of supply and restores service when an incident occurs. Its maintenance must be optimal, and this is where generators come into play. In the event of a power failure in the grid and the hypothetical risk of a nationwide system outage, emergency power is crucial as part of the safety protocols.
Project development
As part of the organisation’s maintenance and modernisation plan, Genesal Energy replaced the existing generator set with a last-generation unit in a new location, further away from the main CECOEL offices. This way, the operation of the generator set would not alter the normal activity of the different departments in the slightest.
Extra fuel tank
Genesal Energy designed, manufactured and supplied this genset and also an additional tank – for which a large crane was required – in order to provide the genset with a high level of autonomy. Transfer pumps and the installation of connecting pipes between the unit and the tank completed the project.
Features
Special soundproofed Canopy. The unit starts by external command.
- Internal tank with liquid collection tray.
- 4000 litres Certified External tank double-walled (steel-steel).
- Redundant automatic fuel transfer system between both tanks.
- Automatic start-up control panel manufactured to customer specification.
- Fuel consumption meter for carbon footprint calculation.
- FATs were carried out with a load bank and in the presence of the client to verify compliance with all the requirements.
Genesal Energy emergency power for a mobile water-generation plant
Water-generation plants extract water from the environment, concentrating and purifying it inside the equipment.
This type of mobile infrastructure makes it possible to bring drinking water to remote areas where access to it is very scarce or even non-existent.
Genesal Energy has just supplied a custom generator set for one of these plants. These devices operate in emergencies or natural catastrophes. They also play a fundamental role in places where there is a lack of water infrastructures.
Among other projects we have designed for this sector, we have manufactured and supplied a tailor-made 20ft DV container generator set.
What was the objective?
The solution developed by our engineers focused on powering the entire series of elements that are installed inside the container itself. The Engineering Department also points out the specific characteristics of the place, e.g. the humidity conditions, where the generator set is going to operate.
Importance of a generator set.
A genset is the main source of power for these plants, which are often installed in remote locations where the infrastructure is very poor. They are often commissioned in areas where there is not even access to a conventional power grid.
Customer need
The client needed a generator set with a great autonomy and the necessary robustness to be able to be transported through unconventional places where cargos are subjected to high stresses due to the shakings.
The small area available was also a handicap. It “forced us to build a fairly high base frame for generators of this power rate in order to reach the fuel capacity required for the requested operating hours”, our technicians explain. “We had to make reinforcements and frames for the container, completely different elements from the standard ones”, they underline.
Eventually, the engineering department was able to design the container as required by the customer in order to be able to install the rest of the elements.
Features:
- Specially designed container meeting customer’s requirements.
- Custom-designed base frame, adapted to the location and space reserved by the customer inside the container.
- 1000 L base frame integrated fuel tank.
- RAL colour required by the customer.
Genesal Energy increases its presence in the UK generator healthcare industry providing the Eastbourne hospital
The design of generator sets for the healthcare sector must meet many criteria, but there are two without which achieving optimum performance would be virtually impossible: power and silence.
Genesal Energy Health generator sets complies with both – high power and soundproofing – ensuring normal operation in the event of any power failure or incident.
One of our latest projects has been delivered for the United Kingdom, reinforcing the power supply for Eastbourne Hospital, in the Southeastern County of East Sussex.
Power
The town of Eastbourne has a population of almost 100,000 and its hospital is a speciality centre that covers the demand of not only the city but also the small surrounding towns, making it one of the main health facilities in the county.
The project developed by our engineering department consisted of extending the emergency network designing, manufacturing and commissioning two new powerful and silent hospital generators, guaranteeing an average sound pressure level of 75 decibels at one metre at all times.
As with other special turnkey projects, the generator sets at Eastbourne Hospital have a number of features that set them apart. These are the main ones:
FEATURES:
- Walls fitted with high-thickness acoustic panels and a synthetic foil for special soundproofing, guaranteeing also EI120 fire resistance.
- Outlet Air silencers fitted to the container and Inlet Air silencers integrated into the container.
- Mitsubishi S16R PTA engine fitted with a Mecc Alte ECO46 2S4A alternator on a base frame.
- Certified 1000-litre double-walled (steel-steel) tank inside the container.
- Exhaust gas silencers providing -40 dB attenuation.
- C5 paint surface treatment, according to ISO12944.
- Automatic fuel transfer system.
- Special power outlet busbars for coupling to the busbar trunking system.
- Motorised air inlet and outlet louvers and indoor space heaters.
Infallible power for extreme security at a hospital in Germany
Hospitals are critical infrastructures because of their great importance to society.
They require special security measures in areas such as the power supply, key in the operation of these buildings. Electricity can never fail.
Genesal Energy specialises in offering the healthcare sector highly innovative energy solutions with all the warranties in terms of design, manufacture and maintenance. Machines capable of starting up in record time – in the event of a failure in the network – securing the operation of ORs, ICUs and other equipment.
The high quality and innovation of our own-manufactured generator sets has led us to design projects for hospitals all over the world and one of the latest orders has been for the Lukas Neuss one in Germany.
With 13 specialities and a staff of almost 1,000 professionals, this leading hospital is located in Neuss, a city of more than 150,000 inhabitants in the Westphalia region. Genesal Energy has reinforced the safety of the facilities designing, manufacturing and commissioning an emergency power unit. Among many other features, it complies with local emissions’ standards for combustion engines and water protection and is suitable for operation at low temperatures.
What makes it so special? Stage V generators
The generator set designed for the Neuss hospital has a latest-generation Stage V engine with particles filter, catalytic converter and urea system to comply with the demanding German emissions regulations. The machine must also be fitted with trays to collect any type of polluting liquid such as fuel, oil, coolants, etc.
In addition, it is equipped with leak detection systems to prevent spillage and motorised louvers and interior heating to ensure start-up in adverse weather conditions.
Technical Data
- Power panel integrated in the container.
- WHG compliant.
- Leak detector in the container rooms and in the double-walled tank.
- Motorised air inlet and outlet louvres.
- Interior space heaters.
Generator set for a hangar at Barajas airport with a surface area equivalent to three football pitches.
Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas airport leads the ranking of air traffic in Spain. It closed the 2023 financial year with a passenger volume of more than 60 million and more than 380,000 operations carried out.
The figures reflect the importance of this airfield which, due to its colossal dimensions, needs to have many hangars where aircraft can “rest”. Premises equipped to carry out repairs and maintenance operations inside.
They are normally designed to house more than one aircraft and emergency power is key to their operation. With a surface area of more than 22,400 square metres, the equivalent of almost three football pitches, one of these airport hangars needed a special generator. Genesal Energy has just supplied contingency power to prevent a significant loss of time and money with a special genset for airports.
Tailor-made: generator set for a hangar
“The client required the customised manufacture of hoppers and bellows for the generator’s cooling air outlet, as well as a gas duct with 90° bends to adapt to the layout of the hangar’s generator room“, explain the engineering staff which developed this project.
Our engineering team’s solution consisted of a highly customised generator set, which was manufactured according to the customer’s requests, seeking the best options for a special site with such particular dimensions.
Technical Data
- Power panel integrated in the alternator, allowing the intake of two cables per phase.
- Calculation of the necessary cross-sections for the inlet and outlet of gases in the room, tailor-made hopper and bellows.
- Oversized exhaust silencer model.
- Multicolour control panel.
- Heating system.
- Integrated 350 L tank.
Genesal Energy provides emergency power for two sugar farms in Tanzania
Africa is a continent with great natural resources. Market studies of the states in the eastern region, formed by 14 countries, reflect a 3% growth of the energy sector in the coming years.
In this favourable scenario, one country stands out: Tanzania.
With a population of more than 63 million people, Tanzania’s agriculture is an important source of income, representing 25% of GDP, and sugar cane is one of its most profitable crops. Within this sector, the Kilombero Sugar company is a heavyweight. Its projects to increase production in the medium and long term require solid infrastructures capable of withstanding any unforeseen power supply eventuality, the country having a very deficient electricity network.
Reliability: emergency energy gensets for sugar farms
Genesal Energy has just reinforced the safety of the energy supply in one of its factories of brown sugar for direct consumption.
The company owns and operates two farms close to each other, Msolwa K1 and Ruembe K2, located on both sides of the Great Ruaha River and linked by a bridge. Both farms are involved in brown sugar production and need a very reliable network to carry out their daily business.
The project developed by Genesal Energy for Kilombero Sugar focused on the design, manufacture and commissioning of two soundproof generator sets with three different rooms each: engine-alternator room, control room and storage room.
2xGEN2000YC features:
- Two soundproofed generator sets were designed in 40 feet containers, guaranteeing an average sound pressure level of 85 dB at 1 m.
- The container has 3 separate rooms: engine-alternator room, control room and storage room.
- A Baudouin 16M33G2000 engine was fitted with a Mecc Alte ECO46 2L4A alternator on an electro-welded steel base with anti-vibration blocks.
- A 2000-litre, double-walled, certified tank was installed inside the container.
- A water spray fire detection and extinguishing system was installed in the group room and the storage room.
- CO 2 extinguishers were installed in the control room.
- Air-conditioned control room.
- C5 paint surface treatment, in accordance with ISO12944
GEN1100YC features:
- 40ft Container, guaranteeing an average sound pressure level of 85 dB at 1 metre.
- Container with 3 separate rooms: engine-alternator room, control room and storage room.
- Baudouin 12M26G1100/5 engine & Mecc Alte ECO43 2L4A alternator on an electro-welded steel base with anti-vibration blocks.
- 2000 litres, double-walled, type-approved tank installed inside the container.
- Water-spray fire detection and extinguishing system installed in the genset and the storage rooms.
- CO2 extinguishers in the control room.
- Air-conditioned control room.
- C5 paint surface treatment, in accordance with ISO12944
We bring energy to the “Carlos Tartiere”, the largest football stadium in Asturias with a seating capacity of 30,500.
With 30,500 seating capacity, the “Carlos Tartiere” municipal football stadium, home to Real Oviedo, is also the largest sports venue in Asturias.
Genesal Energy has designed an open and customised generator set for stadium to guarantee the electricity supply in the event of a possible failure of the main grid. If it happens, the show must go on.
For facilities of this type, the availability of emergency generators has become compulsory by law. The reason is to prevent a simple blackout from forcing the cancellation of a match or competition, with the consequent inconvenience that this would cause the players, spectators and, above all, the club, as it would have serious economic and reputational consequences.
Emergency generator for stadium
“The installation of a generator set in a football stadium guarantees 100% of the electricity supply and that the events in the stadium can take place normally, without problems”, explained the Genesal Energy Engineering Department.
In this type of project, the generator sets must have highly reliable engines to assume the loads quickly in the event of a grid failure, maintaining not only the frequency but also the generation voltage.
Genesal Energy is perfectly aware of the importance of small details and precision in the manufacturing process of generating sets for sports venues and we have carried out numerous projects in this sector. Among our latest works we can highlight the emergency systems for the Mendizorroza stadium and for the municipal stadium of Anduva.
Which was our solution for Real Oviedo FC?
Our client needed to replace a generator in poor condition and reorientate the air inlet and gas outlet due to works being carried out at the sports facility. Based on this premise, the engineering department developed an open generator on a laminated ‘U’ with an independent 1000 litre tank, switch on alternator and compact box of two batteries. The customer required the input to the group power with two cables per phase and the customised manufacture of the hopper and bellow for the air outlet of the radiator.
Technical Data
- Emergency unit with external start-up.
- Open skid on laminated ‘U’.
- 4-pole CB on alternator.
- Dimensions adapted to customer’s room.
- ComAp InteliLite4 AMF 25 controller.
- Additional heating pump.
- Additional tank 1000 litres.
Emergency generating sets for the 4.0 conversion of a large shipyard in Spain
Genesal Energy has designed three special shipyard generator sets to reinforce the security in the power supply of one of the main Galician shipyards, a benchmark in Spain.
The purpose of the works is to convert the shipyard into a ‘smart factory’ improving all the processes and tools of its value chain and production centres to incorporate them into the new digital ecosystem. A 4.0 Shipyard.
The equipment was manufactured to complement the renovation works on the facilities of the famous shipyard. This works cover four fields of action: machinery and products, applications, people and company. The customer required three generator sets for the supplementary power supply station with a production capacity of 4.5 MVA with an option to extend it by 2.2 MVA.
If there was a power failure at the substation supplying the shipyard, there would be a serious problem, hence the importance of back-up power: our generator sets would be up and running within seconds. Guaranteeing the safety and optimal operation of the facilities.
Shipyard generator: versatility, a plus
The tailor-made generator sets are adapted to work in a saline environment and are 100% versatile. The control system is adapted to operate in parallel with the grid, and an automatic diesel fuel transfer system was designed for refilling from a central tank.
“We took into account the loads that are going to feed the equipment and the type of control that the client is going to use in the installation”, explained Engineering. The containers were also customised according to the final location of the machinery with the colour and design requested by the client.
Technical Data
Equipment for saline environment:
- Stainless steel exhaust gas silencer.
- Marinised alternator.
- Alternator anti-condensation resistor.
- PT100 probes in alternator windings.
- Motorised air inlet and outlet louvres.
- Stainless steel ventilation louvers.
- Surface paint treatment according to ISO12944 – C5M.
- Container design requested by the customer.
- Motorised CBs.
We take part in the extension of Extresol, the solar thermal plant in Badajoz
When it came into operation in 2010, Extresol-1 was the second plant of its kind in the world.
A budget of 300 million euros, 50 MW of installed power and the use of the most advanced technologies. Extresol uses cylindrical-parabolic collectors within a solar radiation concentration system equipped with a sun-tracking mechanism. The task of these plants is to direct solar radiation from the reflecting surfaces onto the receiver tube and concentrate it about eighty times.
A generator for a solar thermal plant
Built on 2,25 square kilometres of land in Badajoz, Southwest Spain, Extresol currently supplies electricity equivalent to the consumption of more than 30,000 homes and avoids the emission of 149,000 tonnes of CO2 per year. Genesal Energy takes part in the expansion works of this infrastructure doing what we do best: reinforcing the security system with a solid emergency network to avoid issues and shutdowns in the event of failure in the network.
Customer’s need
Our client needed to guarantee the emergency supply in the event of a failure in either of the two existing transformers and it had to be done independently. Genesal Energy installed a 935/1010 KVA open genset placed inside one of the plant buildings, with double switching mounted on the genset itself due to the existing space limitations, and also double mains detection, operating the equipment independently for each of the transformers.
Technical Data
- 1000 litre specially designed fuel tank on the bedplate.
- Switchboard integrated in the bedplate, equipped with two 1600A 4P 230V motorised ATS.
- ATS Mains detection system.
Contact
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