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800kW Mobile Generator Purchase
History
Recent severe weather events have exposed a gap in the Village's ability to provide reliable backup power to mission-critical facilities. While the Police Department's backup power has recently been addressed with the mechanics almost complete with the pump rebuild, Public Works' current setup (150kW and 80kW generators) can power only a portion of the building, leaving phone lines inoperable and large areas without electricity.
The Public Works Optimization Project, which includes a dedicated backup generator sized for the entire facility, is likely still one to two (1-2) years from installation. In the meantime, Public Works identified the 800kW temporary mobile trailer generator currently stationed at the Police Department as an ideal way to bridge that gap and began investigating a similar unit for Village purchase.
Once acquired, the mobile 800kW unit would serve as a dispatchable emergency power source for any Village facility lacking its own generator-including the Civic Center, FLC, SportsPlex, and CPW-once Public Works' dedicated generator is in place. It would also serve as a backup for the Main Pump Station generator in the event of a failure there. This is not a single-use purchase; it's an asset with a clear, multi-year, multi-facility deployment plan already in view.
The purchase also aligns with an existing budget conversation: for FY27, the Village had already planned to budget for a "5th-wheel generator"-a mobile unit large enough to power any Village facility-and the 800kW unit meets that specification.
While the temporary unit currently at the Police Department is not for sale, Dav-Com Electric, Inc. has submitted a co-op proposal for the purchase of a 2025 Caterpillar 800kW APS800A mobile trailer generator; the same unit as the one at the Police Department. The unit is C27-powered, rated 800kW standby (725kW prime) at 3-phase 480V, and housed in a sound-attenuated 30-ft ISO container (69-74 ...
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