News

Emergency Response to Storm Babet’s Disruption

18/12/2023

Over a 3 day period during October Storm Babet wreaked havoc across the UK delivering over 100mm of rain in places, which resulted in severe disruption to several major aspects of life across many areas of the country, with loss of electrical supplies and some catastrophic failures being just one.

Welcoming Samantha Collishaw and Reducing Carbon Footprint

12/10/2023

EME Power Systems has been trying to look at ways of reducing our Carbon Foot Print and improving our efficiency.

With nearly 700 maintenance contracts across the UK our process involves a lot of driving and a large amount of paperwork, creating job cards and instructions for the routine and full maintenance we carry out.

Running these is takes a lot of time and effort as well as the office side of things with printing and paperwork.

Ardagh Glass Transformer Replacement

30/09/2023

EME Power Systems recently completed a transformer replacement project at Ardagh Glass in Doncaster. The works involved the replacement of 2No. existing transformers with 2No. new 3MVA Cast Resin transformers. The time frame of the project was extremely tight, with one of the transformers needing to be energised to ensure production could begin as soon as the new furnace was completed.

Considering Voltage Management to Help Cut Bills?

15/08/2023

Voltage management comes in many technologies and is just one element of improving energy efficiency but, if considering voltage management to help cut electricity bills, quite often one of the lowest cost options gets overlooked and you may already have the equipment to achieve a voltage reduction to site in place.

Graham Haydn-Davies Retirement

2nd June 2023

EME Power Systems said goodbye on 24^th May to long standing employee Graham Haydn-Davies as he left to enjoy his well-earned retirement.

LV Sub-Main Fault

23/03/23

EME Power Systems received a call from a customer asking us if we could help to investigate an ever increasing intermittent tripping problem on a parallel feeder circuit from an LV MCCB.

Cable Joint Failure

26th January 2023

On Saturday 26^th November our Incident Manager, Steve Myson received an emergency call from Eat Real in Nuneaton. The site was reporting a total loss of supply to site and National Grid (formerly Western Power Distribution) were confirming that there were no issues on the local distribution network and that the problem was within the private network belonging to Eat Real. Steve dispatched an engineer to site to commence fault finding.

Phil Shaw Retirement

10th January 2023

EME Power Systems wish Phil Shaw all the very best in his retirement.