Load Bank Rental Leader Facilitates Commissioning of 40MW Low-Emission Gas Turbine Generator

Owings, MD, December 13, 2011 -- ComRent, the leading provider of load bank rental solutions and services in North America for testing mission-critical power systems, today announced that its load banks were responsible for the successful commissioning of a new 40 Megawatt (MW), low-emission natural gas turbine generator, which was deployed to augment local utility power in support of expanded mining and smelting operations for a large copper mine in Arizona - the largest load bank commissioning project of its kind in North America. By tapping ComRent’s fleet of CR922 transportable, medium-voltage load banks for commissioning the 40MW gas turbine generator, the copper mine’s project managers were able to rapidly commission the gas turbine’s additional electrical generating capacity, eliminating the long lead times and high costs associated with extending additional local utility power to the mine.  ComRent provided 40MW of resistive load - enough energy to power over 4,000 households.  Testing lasted eight days, including one day of rigorous testing lasting nine hours at the full load of 40MW, verifying the natural gas turbine’s operational capacity, emissions and safety functions, without  impacting  the mine’s ongoing mining and smelting operations.