Fabtech 2014

[Andrew Rudolph]

Originally Posted by mman1506

Neat, I wonder how they supply power to all those machines on the conference floor. They must have some crazy generators.

They usually are using facility power. NPE, The International Plastics Show can only be held in Orlando and I believe Chicago because of the power demands of the show.

Just to give you and idea of the scale of power use for a convention center, here in Orlando at OCCC on the roof there is a 1 megawatt solar array, this only scratches the surface of the facility power, nothing to do with show power. I had a meeting with some of the facilities guys there once and they started walking me through some of this stuff, pretty impressive and massive.