Properly maintaining your electrical equipment requires planned outages. It’s important to understand the demands — test all equipment, make enough repairs to justify the outage, get equipment recharged as soon as possible — as well as the risks associated with returning to service.

Breaker cabinet in electrical substation room for power plant
 

Read this post on CBS ArcSafe to learn the real-world risk factors of returning an electrical system to service and the best practices to follow to reduce or eliminate risks.