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2016
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Green Energy and
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EGSA Power Generation
Market Pulse Survey
EGSA Heads ‘South of the Border’
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Annual Dealer Conference
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contents
Volume 51, No.1 • January/February 2016
Columns
From the Top. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
January/February 2016 $5.00
2016 President Bob Hafich
Education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2016
Spring
Is There Anybody Out There?
Conference
Preview
Codes & Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Green Energy and
Green Money: Coincidence?
Snapshot for 2016 2015 EGSA Power Generation
Market Pulse Survey
EGSA Heads ‘South of the Border’
for the Generac Power Systems
Annual Dealer Conference
POWER-GEN International
a Huge Success for the
Features EGSAS uPnobweeltr TPraavnilsiofonr mine 2r 0L1td5.!
Member Profile
2016 EGSA Spring Conference Preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
We’re Back in the Saddle Again in 2016!
Are You Ready to Join EGSA in Spurring on our 51st Year?
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On the Cover: 2016 Spring
EGSA Power Generation Market Pulse Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Conference Preview; Page 13.
EGSA Heads ‘South of the Border’ for the
Generac Power Systems Annual Dealer Conference. . . . . . . . 33
POWER-GEN International a Huge Success for the
EGSA Power Pavilion in 2015! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Market Pulse survey
2015 EGSA Power Generation
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EGSA Power Generation
EGSA Membership Application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Market Pulse Survey; Page 25.
It pays to be a Member of EGSA. Join now!
EGSA New Members. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Who has joined EGSA in the past few months?
Job Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
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Industry News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
The latest reports.
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2016 eGsa officers
advertIsers Index
President
Bob Hafich, Emergency Systems Service Company
[email protected]
President-Elect
Aaron Equipment Company ......44 disclaimer Charlie Habic, Gillette Generators Inc.
[email protected]
Altronic, LLC (GTI Bi-Fuel) .......4 Powerline Magazine is wholly owned and operated by
the Electrical Generating Systems Association (EGSA) and Vice President
Anna, Inc.....................26 includes advertising, press releases, editorials, and other David Brown, Collicutt Energy Services Inc.
materials and information submitted by third parties and [email protected]
ASCO Power Technologies .......48 gathered by EGSA, its publisher, and its agents and from
Secretary-Treasurer
contributors. This information is passed along by EGSA for Todd Lathrop, Eaton
Diesel Gas & Turbine
the interest of its members only. With regard to products, [email protected]
Publications ..................41 services and information mentioned, advertised, or printed,
Immediate Past President
EGSA, its publisher, and its agents, do not investigate the
Generator Solutions, Inc..........21 merit, accuracy or value of the material or information, Ed Medu@rpphoyw, eProsewaercrh Sineca.rccohm, Inc.
and make no representations, warranties or endorsements
Hilliard Corp...................5
of any kind, and hereby disclaim any responsibility to par-
Phoenix Products ..............47 ties using such products, services or information. Readers’ 2016 eGsa dIrectors
Bob Hafich
activities are at their own risk. Paul Feld, Penn Power Systems
Power & Compression Sales......26 With regard to editorials, letters to the editor, columns Ole E. Haaland, Anna Inc. 2016 EGSA President
and any other opinions expressed herein, EGSA, its pub- Bill Kaewert, SENS (Stored Energy Systems LLC) bob.hafich@
Pritchard Brown ...............22
lisher and its agents, do not ratify, adopt, endorse or verify Dennis Pearson, Woodward emergencysystems-inc.com
Ring Power Corp........... 9 & 26 such opinions, and hereby state that any opinions, express Bob Piske, Arizona Generator Technology
or implied, are solely those of the speaker. No information Steve Sappington, Caterpillar
Robinson Enclosures............26 is to be regarded as legal advice and reliance thereon and
David J. Stringer, DEIF, Inc.
accuracy of statements is hereby disclaimed.
Russelectric, Inc................11 Kurtiss E. Summers, Load Banks of America
With regard to information contained herein gener- Tom Wein, Generac Power Systems, Inc.
Showmen Supplies Inc...........22 ally, EGSA, its publisher and its agents, do not guarantee,
represent or verify the accuracy of any information. EGSA,
eGsa staff
Sunbelt Transformer ............35 its publisher and its agents, endeavor to provide accurate
information, but cannot guarantee the accuracy and hereby Jalane Kellough, Executive Director
Thomson Power Systems.........34 disclaim liability for any reliance on the information con- Liz Bustamante, Manager of Membership & Technology
tained herein. Peter A. Catalfu, Manager of Communications
United Alloy, Inc. ..............17
Herb Daugherty, Manager of the Rowley School
EGSA, its publisher and its agents, make no representa-
tions, warranties or endorsements of any kind of the infor- Kim Giles, Marketing Manager
mation, opinions, and advertisements contained herein, do Michael Pope, Director of Education
not assert the accuracy of any statements and all reliance Carla Powers, Manager of Conferences & Meetings
thereon is hereby disclaimed. Debby Amaral-Robinson, Accounting Manager
Herbert V. Whittall, Technical Advisor
Kelly Wilson, Office Manager
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2016 President Bob Hafich
Meet our 51st EGSA President, Bob Hafich! An serving Central and Eastern Pennsylvania, South-
active member of EGSA since 1997, when ern and Central New Jersey and Northern Dela-
Bob, (along with his brother Joe Hafich), attended ware. Bob is President of Sales and Administration,
their first EGSA Conference at the insistence of while Joe is President of Service and Operations.
Tom Richards, EGSA President 1988 (Katolight) We welcome Bob as our 2016 EGSA President
and Al Prosser (Katolight then, MTU now). and wish him much success in his role this year.
Bob has been a spokesperson for EGSA Mem- Here is a chance to get to know him better, with
bership from almost day one. His leadership our annual presidential interview. Take a look!
strengths and his passion for the Membership
“Who is the most influential person in
Committee to succeed with their goals have
eGsa during your years of active partici-
Bob Hafich
served the Association well.
pation? Why do you think that it is true?”
2016 EGSA President
Bob served as the Membership Chair from 2008
bob.hafich@ until 2011. During this time, he is remembered Bob Hafich: “Tom Richards. Tom took me, along
emergencysystems-inc.com fondly for thinking ‘out of the box’ and engaging with my brother Joe and Al Prosser to our first
fellow members with the “Hafich Challenge,” a EGSA meeting in Baltimore 1997. I am not sure if it
membership contest that Bob championed while was Al’s first EGSA event or not? I saw the respect
Chair to extend our branding message and en- that Tom received from everyone that he came into
courage fellow members to engage their peers to contact with during the 3-day event. I observed
consider EGSA membership. Overall, we gained the personal and professional relationships that he
24 new members from the contest, with the ma- developed there. I thought ‘what a great organiza-
jority still active in EGSA business! Bob has also tion’ and ‘how good this could be for Joe and me.’
earned several accolades in EGSA, including the Tom went out of his way to introduce us to every-
Carpenter Award (2010), the Timmler (2012) and one and we were welcomed with open arms. He
the President’s Award (2012). Coincidentally, both also strongly urged us to get involved as the next
Bob and Joe have served on the EGSA Board of generation of EGSA. I am so glad that we listened.”
Directors, with Bob serving twice.
“What was your first impression of eGsa?”
Bob, together with his brother Joe are the lead-
ership team at Emergency Systems Service Com- Bob Hafich: “I was so impressed with the profes-
pany (ESSCO) of Quakertown, PA. Established in sionalism of the organization and the camaraderie
1974 by Joseph A. Hafich and his wife and busi- and relationships that I saw members sharing. Ev-
ness partner, Lillian, ESSCO had humble begin- eryone was so welcoming. I saw the potential and
nings as a sole proprietorship engaged in the busi- I wanted to be part of it!”
ness of selling, servicing and repairing gensets.
“Where would you like to see eGsa head-
Above: (l to r) Joe M., ESSCO has also been an authorized distributor
ed in the next 50 years?”
Lillian and Bob Hafich. of Katolight since 1987 and remained such until
Emergency Systems Service Katolight was purchased by Tognum, the parent Bob Hafich: “I want to see EGSA continue the
Co. was established in 1974 company for MTU Onsite Energy in 2007. Today, current path and truly become the dominant voice
in Quakertown, PA. ESSCO remains an authorized distributor for MTU, of the On-Site Power Industry globally. I want to
see all end users educated on
our Technician Certification
Program and require their
generators be serviced by
EGSA Certified Technicians.
Continued on page 12
Bottom Left: The Gang’s all here! (from l to r: Kenny (son-in-law), daughter Shelby, grandson Arlo, Kim and Bob Hafich)
Bottom Right: Fun photo at the Fountain Hotel in Wildwood, NJ. According to Bob, when he and Kim were first married, they vacationed
there every summer with their daughter, Shelby. Now that Shelby has a child of her own, it remains a place of fond memories!
Powerline • January/February 2016 www.EGSA.org 7
educatIon
is there anybody out there?
Michael Pope You are giving it your all; the group is sitting could your presentations be improved?
EGSA Director in front of you and you are well into your
Some of Our Instructor’s Opinions
of Education presentation. But just a minute... some folks are
[email protected] looking at their handhelds, you can tell that oth- “Bill Heacock’s training kept my attention and
ers have mentally left the room by their glazed helped me learn how to keep the attention of
eyes, only a few are taking notes and you realize those that I train. I feel that Bill’s training was
that you have lost most of them. Is this session extremely useful and not only did I change my
turning out to be a waste of everybody’s time, presentations for the EGSA Rowley Schools
including yours? but also changed how I put together my pre-
EGSA volunteer instructors teach a total of sentations for my current employer!”
about 200 hours every year at the George Row-
Todd Lathrop, Eaton
ley Schools of On-Site Power Generation. Com-
(Transfer Switches)
panies that send their people to these schools
expect professional, knowledgeable and effective
“I did a series of web activities with Bill and
instructors that are able to increase the knowl-
EGSA some years ago. It was a very help-
edge of their staff.
ful exercise. I really liked Bill’s feedback on
the taped session - it changed the way I do
teaching the teacher
presentations and PowerPoint. It can be dif-
Our Rowley School instructors are all experts
ficult to get feedback that is not subject mat-
in the topics they teach. And they have a wide
variety of backgrounds that include electrical and ter based, but Bill did an excellent job of
mechanical engineering as well as technical sales. critiquing instructors on their presentations.
We have some business owners, a manufacturer’s His suggestions really help me reach my au-
rep., consultants and some who are professional dience, and I believe retention has improved
power generation instructors. because of it.”
Very few of them had any training on training.
Walter Chrysam, Alban CAT Power Systems
They became presenters because of their techni-
(Basic Electricity, Generators/Alternators)
cal knowledge and the need to communicate that
knowledge.
“I think the knowledge I gained was invalu-
able, especially concerning the delivery of
are your “presenters” in this category?
technical instruction.”
Your Board of Directors recognized the impor-
Tim Hinde, Woodward
tance of making our Rowley Schools as effective
(Governors, Voltage Regulators)
as possible. We started an Instructor Enhance-
ment Program several years ago. All Rowley
“The webinar was very insightful and was
School instructors are required to participate.
packed with valuable information, not only
Our consultant, Bill Heacock, specializes in tech-
nical training techniques; his webinars for our on common missteps that I was already com-
instructors have been instrumental in improving mitting, but also ways to enhance the presen-
our presentations at the Rowley Schools. tation for more effective learning.”
Jim McDonald, PowerSecure, Inc.
(Engine Exhaust Emissions)
Continued on page 24
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codes & standards
Snapshot for 2016
Unfortunately, due to some medical problems make sure that the Standard does not include any
requirements such as Voltage and frequency Ride
I was unable to attend the EGSA Fall Confer-
Through that would preclude the use of syn-
ence in Denver, so we have some catching up to do!
chronous rotating engine driven generator sets.
An informal count of the attendees shows the
Here’s a snapshot of where we are
following: Test Labs – 4; Academia – 5; Utilities
heading into 2016:
– 31; Manufacturers – 24. Of the Manufacturers,
The UL 2200 Review/Revise Work Group met
several were from the Inverter Industry except
in Denver with Jeff Jonas (Generac Power Sys-
for these EGSA members: Marcelo Algrain (Cat-
tems), Steve Oxtoby (Kohler Power Systems),
erpillar, Inc.), Ken Gebauer (ASCO Power Tech-
Herb Whittall Steve Sappington (Caterpillar, Inc.), Steve Stoy-
nologies), Dennis Pearson (Woodward) and Rich
EGSA Technical Advisor anac (Chillicothe Metal Co., Inc.) and Mike Wit-
Scroggins (Cummins Power Generation). Luck-
[email protected] kowski (Pritchard Brown, LLC) in attendance.
ily, Herb Daugherty is also a member of the IEEE
This EGSA Working Group is partnering with
Conformance Assessment Program Steering
UL to try and make UL 2200 safe and also more
Committee, which is responsible for establishing
user-friendly, especially in regards to genset en-
requirements for certification of systems to the
closures. If you are interested in helping this
IEEE 1547 Standard. We really need additional
group, please contact Steve Sappington at sap-
EGSA Members to attend these meetings in order
[email protected] or, plan on attending the next
to protect our industry from a bad standard.
EGSA Conference, March 20-22 in San Antonio,
The July/August issue of IEEE Industry Appli-
TX and attend their Working Group meeting on
cations magazine has two articles that should be
Sunday morning at 11:00 a.m. (March 20th).
of interest to EGSA Members. On page 36, there
The Codes & Standards Surveillance Com-
is an article titled “Striving for Zero Planned
mittee met on Monday afternoon with 50 people
Outages” and on page 56, an article titled “An
in attendance. They had a presentation from Erik
Overview of IEEE 3007 Series Standards” which,
Reynolds (Intertek ETL) concerning “Functional
when published, will replace the IEEE Color
Safety.” The presentation covered such items as
Books.
Global Trends and Requirements, how to prop-
Herb Daugherty attended the November 9 -13
erly assess a Safety Integrity Level rating, Failure
meeting (San Diego, CA) of the NEC Code mak-
Mode and HAZOP analysis and IEC 61508. The
ing panel 13, which covers Articles 445, 480,
Committee also discussed the status of NFPA 70,
695, and 700’s.
99, 110 and 111, which are all of interest to our
membership and we have members on each of
Here is a summary of his report:
those standards committees.
Article 445 added the requirement to mark
IEEE 1547 and its various sections were dis-
generators with Subtransient Reactance, Syn-
cussed, along with Herb Daugherty’s summary of
chronous and Zero-Sequence Reactance, Insula-
the IEEE 1547 meeting (October 27- 29th),where
tion Class and Maximum Short Circuit rating.
they were working on a rewrite of IEEE 1547
Article 480 added the requirement that Bat-
Standard for Interconnection and Interoperabil-
teries and battery Systems be “Labeled”. Article
ity of Distributed Energy resources with Associ-
700 added Section 700.3(F) that when Emer-
ated Electric Power Systems interfaces. There was
gency Systems have only a single source of alter-
also discussion by various subgroups on subjects
nate power, then a permanent switching system
such as Voltage Regulation, Voltage and frequen-
to add another source when the single system is
cy Ride Through, Anti Islanding, Energy Storage
down the other source must be installed. A new
and Communication Monitoring and Control.
Article 712– Direct Current Microgrids - Defini-
We need to be as involved as we can in order to
tion was added.
Continued on page 12
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