Superpower

Finning Power Systems has been awarded a contract by Haden Young, to supply all of the emergency power provision for Birmingham's new £553m PFI ‘super hospital'. 

The turnkey project involves providing 12MVA of standby power, the high voltage switchgear, the power management system and the design and erection of the energy centre, which will house the generator sets. The company is supplying and installing ten Caterpillar diesel generator sets. There will be six high voltage sets in the main generator powerhouse, with four further low voltage sets installed in different locations. Finning is also completing all of the building sound attenuation for the powerhouse and other plant areas.