emergency generator
Outage electricity source
An emergency generator is a backup power source that activates when the main electrical supply fails.
Hospitals, data centers, and buildings with critical systems rely on emergency generators to maintain operations during outages.
Most run on diesel or natural gas and start automatically when they detect a loss of power: The emergency generator kicked in seconds after the blackout.
- backupStored duplicate for recovery
- backup powerSecondary electrical source
- powerEnergy transfer rate
- outageLoss of electrical service
- blackoutComplete power loss
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