FEATURE UPS & STANDBY POWER


INDUSTRY FOCUS UPS & STANDBY POWER


Hello there and welcome to the March Industry Focus, which this month focuses on the latest and greatest developments in UPS and Standby Power. The standby power systems, which UPS systems supply, are used to support mainstream IT and communications infrastructures - from the small home office to the international data centre.


When disaster strikes and the mains power fails, the standby power system can provide emergency power. It will operate either from stored power, usually within lead acid batteries installed within an uninterruptible power supply (UPS), by generated power from a generator, or from a combination of both as an integrated hybrid system. Whilst the on-battery run-time of most uninterruptible power sources is relatively short, often lasting only a few minutes, it is sufficient to start a standby power source or properly shut down the protected equipment.


UPSs range in size from units designed to protect a single computer to large units powering entire data centres. The world's largest UPS, the 46-megawatt Battery Electric Storage System (BESS), in Fairbanks, Alaska, powers the entire city and nearby rural communities during outages. The latest trend in UPS development is modularity. The increasing growth of the modular UPS market can be put down to increasing demand for colocation, decreasing the overall expense of usage, the scalability, overall performance, simple set up and the potential to integrate modern modules. Here you can learn more about these vital systems, and ensure you’re protected when the power goes out.


Niamh Marriott, Editor


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