Emergency Generator

A vessel’s emergency generator provides backup power in the event that the main generators fail. The generator will kick in if the ship has suffered a total blackout. On smaller boats the emergency generator will only need a few kilowatts so enable it to provide emergency lighting although on bigger vessels, such as cruise ships, tankers and container ships, they may need hundreds of kW to restart the main engine auxiliaries, to supply fire fighting pumps and to power the lighting.