Cape Fear Valley Health System: Emergency Generator Plant

Providing Emergency Power

Fayetteville, North Carolina

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.

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.

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

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.

Owner/Client

Cape Fear Valley Health System

Square Footage

7,000 SF

Cost

$17 million

Services

Engineering

Markets

Health and Wellness
Risk, Response and Recovery

Regions

Southeast