Installations of natural gas generator sets (gensets) are expected to grow from 2013 to 2018 to a total of 60 gigawatts of capacity, becoming a nearly $10 billion market by 2018, according to a new report from Pike Research, a part of Navigant’s Energy Practice.
Webster Engineering offers an ultra low NOx burner (9 ppm) on natural gas. It is available with dual fuels without changing burner parts, linkageless controls, TEMP A TRIM burner control or O2 trim, and variable frequency drive.
In my mind, there wasn’t much the residential market could throw at me. I should have guessed something was up by the half-amused look on my customer’s face when he described the problem as “a real hair raiser,” and that a measure of caution was in order … but what could be dangerous about a small furnace?