Diesel drain: why tower cranes are burning through your budget

Alex Dahm Editor, International Cranes and Specialized Transport

01 August 2025

Tower cranes may look busy, but their average energy demand is shockingly low. So why are sites still running them inefficiently using 500 kVA or even larger generators?  Andrew Deakin, technical director at Dumarey Green Power and a speaker at the ITC conference in Rome, says energy storage and hybrid systems now offer a cleaner, cheaper alternative.

One of the Terex CTL 1600s owned by Select Plant on which Dumarey Green Power was advising. Photo: Terex

Andrew Deakin warms to a favourite subject: the needless waste of energy on most construction sites when it comes to powering tower cranes.

As technical director at Dumarey Green Power, a UK-based energy storage company that specialises in powering tower cranes, construction sites and others more efficiently, Deakin spends much…

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