Cape Fear Valley Health System: Emergency Generator Plant
Providing Emergency Power
The new emergency power plant delivers 100 percent power required to run the entire campus, making CFVMC one of the few U.S. hospitals fully operational by using only the onsite generator plant.
The new emergency power plant delivers 100 percent power required to run the entire campus, making CFVMC one of the few U.S. hospitals fully operational by using only the onsite generator plant.
Underground fuel storage provides a minimum of 96 hours of normal operation during a utility power failure.
CFVMC is designed for a 25 percent increase in generating capacity for future expansion. All equipment specified for the plant is capable of providing reliable emergency power for the next 25-30 years.
- Owner/Client
- Cape Fear Valley Health System
- Location
- Fayetteville, NC
- Services
- Engineering
- Square Footage
- 7,000 SF
- Cost
- $17 million
- Completed
- 2009
- Region
- Southeast
Located in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Cape Fear Valley Medical Center (CFVMC) provides acute care and emergency services to approximately 500,000 patients per year. Due to proximity to the coast, hurricanes are often a concern, with power outages ranging from several hours to days.
To prepare against power outages, we developed a plan to upgrade their aging emergency power system, without disrupting operations to the 1.3-million-square-foot hospital. The new 10-MW, 7,000-square-foot emergency power plant contains four 2.5-MW generators (with the ability to add one more) and delivers nearly four times the amount of emergency power than before, using only two-and-a-half times the amount of fuel. The new SCADA control system provides a completely automated system for transferring power.
4x
more emergency power generated
100%
of campus electrical needs supplied for 96 hours
8.8
seconds needed for emergency power to reach life support circuits
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