Sentence examples for standby units from inspiring English sources

"These companies are saying, 'We can't rely on the utilities anymore; we're going to put our own standby units in,' " said Jim Parker, director of electric power generation at Caterpillar, which is based in Peoria, Ill.

Now those with portable generators are being outclassed by homeowners with more money and larger homes springing for far more expensive standby units that can cost $10,000 or more installed.

The number of requests to install standby units "will stay steady because of more acute events and folks are being more self-sufficient," said Robert Schimmenti, the vice president for engineering and planning for electric operations at Con Edison.

Leading manufacturers like Generac and Honda, however, said sales had been unusually strong in the last several years and that the percentage of standby units had risen steadily as Tropical Storm Irene, Hurricane Sandy and other major storms had led to widespread failures along the Eastern Seaboard.

Demand for generators has meant extra work for utilities like Con Edison, which has had a 50 percent jump since 2010 in the number of requests to inspect the natural gas lines that are being connected to newly installed standby units.

Systems have redundant standby units.

Indeed, Chile's military ties with Argentina are so close that the two countries have created a joint standby unit for international operations.

A supply that would drive my system for 15 minutes would cost about $300 for a standby unit, $450 for a line-interactive or $600 for an online model.

In addition to the active component, the corps has a 300-strong standby unit for short-term emergency deployments that officials want to boost to 500 by the end of the year with an eventual goal of 2,000.

α Failure rate of the standby unit.

The standby unit will have a reduced failure rate while in its standby mode.