At the large engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce Power Systems in Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance, business with emergency generators is booming. In the first half of 2022, the entire year 2023 was almost sold out, said a company spokesman for the German Press Agency. "The waiting times for the aggregates are currently 6 to 12 months," he said.

Hospitals, data centers and airports, for example, use MTU diesel gensets to protect themselves against possible power failures. The series generators are produced in Bavaria and the USA. The spokesman said that the big run on the aggregates had already begun before the Ukraine war. "Data traffic is increasing in almost all sectors - medium-sized companies as well as large corporations want to secure the data flow."

Last year, Rolls-Royce Power Systems turned over around 2.75 billion pounds (almost 3.2 billion euros) - about a third of it in the Power Generation business area, which also includes emergency generators. The share continues to rise. The engine manufacturer did not want to say how many emergency generators were sold this year.

Under the MTU brand, Rolls-Royce Power Systems, a division of the British parent company, sells high-speed engines and propulsion systems for power generation for ships as well as heavy land, rail and military vehicles. Around 9,000 people work for the group worldwide.

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