Video by Michel Sauret | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District | 10.16.2024
Kristen Day, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District primary contracting officer for the Temporary Emergency Power Team, talks about the USACE mission to restore power to critical facilities in partnership with FEMA, state and local agencies, and contractors, by installing generators to save and preserve lives in communities impacted by Hurricane Helene in North Carolina. The......
Video by Charles Delano | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Wilmington District | 10.04.2024
Vernon Griffin with the Galveston District safety and occupational health office and Chris Sibert with the Honolulu District serving as quality assurance for the temporary emergency power team works with contractors during a installation of two generators for the City of Henderson Hendersonville Wastewater Treatment Facility in Hendersonville, North Carolina, Oct. 4, 2024. USACE continues to......
Video by Andrew Kornacki | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District | 09.03.2018
As part of the FEMA directed mission assignment the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Temporary Emergency Power mission installed approximately 1300 generators at critical public facilities, but today that number has been reduced to about 80 as grid power has been restored. USACE Temporary Emergency Power Planning and Response Teams assist with assessments, maintenance, and generator......
Video by Jacqueline Tate | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Headquarters | 02.26.2018
Contract workers for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers download a temporary power generator at an elementary school in Bayamon, Puerto Rico on Feb. 26, 2018. Following Hurricane Maria's landfall, the Corps has installed over 1,600 emergency power generators at facilities and in municipalities throughout Puerto Rico providing temporary power until grid power is restored. The Corps......
Video by George Stringham | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District | 12.22.2017
U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS – Temporary emergency generators that have been deinstalled across the U.S. Virgin Islands are loaded December 22, 2017, to be shipped to Puerto Rico, where they will be put back into service to provide temporary power at schools, hospitals, clinics, government buildings and other facilities across the territory until permanent grid power is restored. More than 175......
