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Becoming a Master Technician at Mesa Solutions: A Challenging Journey

April 13, 2023

Mesa Solutions provides many opportunities for career advancement. One of those opportunities is tailored specifically to our generator technicians. Becoming a Master Technician at Mesa is a challenging journey.  Mesa offers all the necessary study materials, troubleshooting guides, coaching, and mentoring to help technicians succeed in their careers. Entry-level Generator Technician Training As an entry-level Generator Technician, Mesa puts your career in your hands. Technicians undergo an initial Generator Technician training program in Casper to equip them with the knowledge and skills to be successful in their careers. This training is followed by the Generator Technician Program, a step-based career development program designed to improve proficiency and advance careers. Once technicians have completed their initial training, they return to their assigned basin and enter the Generator Technician Program. This is a step-based career development program designed to improve their proficiency and advance their careers. The first step is to pass the Technician Assessment, which includes a written exam and a hands-on demonstration of the components of the Mesa generators, as well as some basic service tasks. Upon completion of this

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Mesa Solutions Announces Partnership with Hyundai Doosan Infracore

March 13, 2023

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Mesa Solutions Announces Partnership with Hyundai Doosan Infracore to be North American Distributor of Natural Gas Engines LOVELAND, CO, USA, March 14, 2023 – Mesa Solutions (Mesa), a leading engineering, manufacturer and provider of innovative natural gas generators and microgrids is pleased to announce its close partnership with Hyundai Doosan Infracore (HDI) in the manufacturing of their new natural gas engines. This announcement was made at the 2023 ConExpo show in Las Vegas, Nevada. The new engines will be designed for maximum efficiency and reliability, with a focus on fuel efficiency, power output, and reducing emissions. The engines will meet EPA emissions standards. They will be available in a variety of configurations for a wide range of applications, from industrial to compression and power generation. “We are thrilled to be partnering with HDI to bring these new natural gas engines to the market,” says Mesa Solutions’ CEO, Scott Gromer. “These engines will be a game-changer for our customers, providing them with a reliable and efficient power source that is also environmentally friendly.” The engine development team at

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Overcoming Microgrid Selection Barriers: Three Roadblocks to Consider

February 16, 2023

Microgrids have proved to be a reliable and sustainable way to provide energy to communities, businesses, and institutions in recent years, However the process of selecting the appropriate microgrid solution for a given location can be complex and challenging. Three significant roadblocks typically arise when decisions are made about whether to build (and pay for) a microgrid. Two or three of these roadblocks are often present, but any of them can stop the decision-making process. Roadblock 1: Determining the desired application for a given location Stated simply, what are we going to do and why are we going to do it? Answering these questions can be difficult because there are numerous desirable goals to go after. Often, organizations have the desire to achieve multiple goals that require different approaches to accomplish. So, a solution may look inefficient at best or illusive at worst. An excellent method to cut through the clutter is to determine a location’s power load requirement and the time a standby solution must provide backup power in the event of a grid outage. For example, suppose a

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Microgrid Controls: Communicating in Real-Time

November 18, 2022

With the ever-evolving technological backdrop to society, people want instant feedback and access to information. We can monitor our front porch video feed from our cell phone while we are on a beach vacation, we can preheat the oven at our house before we leave the office, and we can start our cars in the bitter cold winter from the comfort and warmth of our homes. With the advancement of technology not slowing down, microgrids should have the functionality to communicate in real time. Below are three things a microgrid controller should be able to do: accept control commands, engage in site and wide area optimization, and report its own health.   Accept Control Commands Modern microgrid control systems have many features for managing the combined resources within their purview.  A good example of a feature grouping is the algorithms involved in the control of storage batteries.  Given some understanding of the future, such as tomorrow’s weather forecast or tomorrow’s power pricing, decisions must be made about when to charge and when to discharge the battery.  Many other control decisions have to be made

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Three Problems Microgrids Can Solve

September 30, 2022

Utilities face a variety of challenges in today’s business and technical environment.  While customers want lower prices, they also want greater reliability in general, and greater resilience at their specific location.  A utility leader recently characterized the customer side of the equation, saying “It used to be that customers could occasionally cope with going 48 hours without power.  Now, as soon as their cell phone battery goes dead, it’s a crisis for them.”  Large, corporate solutions to these issues are expensive and don’t always solve the problem right to the customer’s door.  On the other hand, microgrids and distributed power generation, can solve these problems and can do so comprehensively. Below are three problems that microgrids and distributed generation can solve. Problem #1: Low Power Generation from Utility Grid Historically, when a utility system became capacity “constrained,” the solution was to build bigger central station generators.  These installations were difficult to build in the past and even more so now. This is partly due to the risk of recovering such large investments in a constantly changing regulatory environment, and partly

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Choosing Demand Response Programs

September 23, 2022

Demand response programs offer many utility consumers a great way to lower their electric utility bills by reducing the demand component (kilowatts) of monthly costs. There are a variety of ways to achieve this improvement, and those ways continue to evolve. The questions below show a logical path you can follow to find out which programs work best for you. 1. What is the electric load profile of the location? It is important to understand the electric load profile of the location in question. For example, is the daily load pattern a slow up and down curve throughout the day, like residential loads? Or is the load relatively flat and stable during non-working hours, but then steps up to a higher level when, for example, employees arrive? The type of demand programs that have the most impact will highly depend on these patterns. 2. What demand programs are offered by the serving utility? The next big step is to evaluate the demand programs offered by the serving utility. Many utility companies offer programs in which customers “enroll” to regularly shift

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Mesa’s Leadership Reading List

July 6, 2022

The leadership team at Mesa Solutions has a goal to train leaders at all levels of the company. To achieve this goal, a reading list has been compiled and curated to include books that help develop and hone leadership skills and traits, and to help foster Mesa’s values and culture in all employees. The reading list includes reading material that is required reading for those in leadership positions and is recommended reading for every Mesa employee to give them insights and tips on developing these important skills. Listed below are books that create a strong foundation for teamwork and leadership. Each Mesa employee is given the book The Ideal Team Player on their first day and encouraged to read it to discover what three qualities make a great team player. Not much of a reader? Start with one. Then another. You’ll have the whole list knocked out in no time! In the wise words of Fred Fichtner, COO and reading list administrator, “If you don’t think you have time to read, you don’t have time to lead.” 1. The Ideal

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Minimizing the Energy Cost of Your Crypto Mining Operations

June 29, 2022

Cryptocurrency is taking the world by storm—and whether you are skeptical of it or spending your kid’s college fund for more, there is no denying a new crypto-industry that is surpassing a $2 trillion market cap and can consume over $100 worth in electricity per transaction— including your Papa John’s pizza order. The purpose of this blog is to briefly summarize some of the recent data on minimizing the cost of mining for cryptocurrency and specifically highlight methods to reduce the energy cost of your crypto mining operations. The nature of cryptocurrency mining requires electricity, and often a significant amount. Accessing cheaper electricity is one of the most effective ways to reduce the cost of virtual mining. As we are coming from the perspective of power generation technology, the simple assumption that crypto mining requires electricity tells us that the cheaper electricity we can provide, the cheaper we can make mining for our customers. With this in mind, our research in this paper has focused on the specific power needs of virtual mining and how miners can reduce their electrical bills.

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