Active Power is known for its flywheel-based UPS systems that are widely used in datacenters, healthcare facilities, manufacturing plants, broadcast stations and governmental agencies in more than 40 countries to support critical operations and ensure business continuity in the event of power disturbances. Active Power has recently launched a simple, online energy efficiency calculator. The application is designed to help organizations understand their opportunity to reduce electricity consumption and energy costs by utilizing Active Power's high efficiency UPS system to protect their data center operations.
This initiative comes in connection to the industry anticipation that datacenter power consumption will increase substantially over the next several years due to a rise in power density. To add to the woe, most datacenter operations are growing in physical size year over year. This means reducing energy consumption to grow efficiency and reduce costs are of paramount importance for the CIO and datacenter operator. Active Power’s energy efficiency calculator is designed to offer helping hand by enabling CIOs and Datacenter Operators to quickly and easily estimate annual cost and energy savings captured with high efficiency UPS System
According to Active Power officials, operators can quickly compare energy and kilowatt per hour (kWh) savings with Active Power's CleanSource (News - Alert) UPS system versus conventional battery technology.
The company has provided a list of features of the online calculator.
Key features of the efficiency calculator include:
-- Interactive slider bars for users to select UPS system size (kW) and load most relevant for their facility
-- Estimates of kWh and money savings along with conversions to other interesting "green" equivalents such as CO2 savings and number of homes powered with the energy savings from a CleanSource UPS deployment
-- Lightweight dynamic design that provides estimate savings in seconds with just a few clicks
-- Supports U.S. dollars, pounds and Euros with other currencies forthcoming
-- Results generated in easy to read printable PDF report
“CIOs and datacenter operators in particular have to manage escalating business and IT demands and these changes almost always require delivering more power for a growing datacenter at a reduced expense. For those evaluating UPS systems, our efficiency calculator provides a quick snapshot of total energy savings, but more importantly the cost savings that can be achieved with the deployment of a CleanSource UPS system, the industry's most efficient backup power system at up to 98 percent,” Lisa Brown, vice president, Marketing and Sales Operations at Active Power, explained.
Active Power informed that its online energy efficiency calculator can be found at http://tools.activepower.com/ec/.
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Edited by Juliana Kenny