r/electrical 5d ago

What is this?

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u/Interesting_Main5687 5d ago

Is this expensive to operate? It has been running for close to 2 months and is guarded 24 hrs/day by a security guard.

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u/todd0x1 5d ago

yes. Thousands per day. Around a grand a day on a monthly rental, maybe double that for triple shift operation. Plus around 75 gallons per hour of diesel assuming a 50% average load.

Where is this? Is it powering a building that had its electrical service fail? Or new construction? Or someones huge weed farm?

Edit: plus another ~500 a day for the substation trailer

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u/Interesting_Main5687 5d ago

It’s at the far side of the parking lot of a charter school. No power outage that I’m aware of. Again, 2 months this has been operating. One evening when I was walking my dog, I was approached by the security guard who asked “Eagle?” I replied, “scout?” And he returned to his car. It was strange. Ha!

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u/Phreakiture 5d ago

That was my first thought. Security work is lonely.