Site resilience and demand-side response are often seen in opposition. But the reverse is true – and can in fact be mutually advantageous, especially if your business could benefit from improving security of supply For many businesses, suffering an interruption to your power supply can be costly as well as Read more…
Countering the risks of battery storage
Battery storage has been a hot topic in the energy industry for a couple of years now. As the ‘halcyon days’ of high DFR revenues slip away, it’s important for businesses to counter the risks with a sensible and technologically smart approach. According to the recent 2018 Battery Storage report by The Energyst, Read more…
The future of data centres: out with ‘aggression’, in with ‘collaboration’?
Speaking at Data Centres Ireland, John Laban from the Open Compute Project pointed out that many data centre professionals are failing to keep up with key technology trends and commented that there is a significant gap in knowledge when it comes to OCP innovation. When questioning data centre professionals on Read more…
A powerful connection: delivering supply to KAO
KAO Data’s new £200m development required a dedicated and redundant 43.5MVA power supply. Managing costs and ensuring resilience was critical to the success of the start-up business One of the most important deliverables for a new data centre is the provision of its power. The connection to the grid can Read more…
Load sharing hybrid power systems: removing the barriers
Deep Sea Electronics (DSE) has developed a control solution that removes the barriers to hybrid load sharing installations. John Ruddock explains how mission critical sites can effectively capitalise on renewable technologies There is a growing market for independent hybrid power systems that maximise the use of readily available renewable sources, Read more…
OCP: Delivering increased efficiency
Robert Bunger, director of Data Centre Industry Alliances, Schneider Electric, provides an insight into how data centre operators can adopt Open Compute Project principles The Open Compute Project (OCP) was born out of the necessity for internet giants to quickly assemble massive hyperscale data centres to support their business Read more…
Energy resilience: tackling the risk of major outages
Choosing batteries that are not ideal for a given application can undermine resilience, putting businesses at risk. Jon Bailey, managing director of Hoppecke UK, offers some advice on ensuring optimal protection for mission critical sites We are living in times of increased business risk and one of the key issues Read more…
Tackling the problem of ‘regenerative power’
Due to the increased use of temporary power solutions, container ports are experiencing issues with ‘regenerative power’, so how can the risks be mitigated? The container shipping industry is an ever-growing, fast-paced environment, and power infrastructure cannot always grow in line with power requirements. For this reason, many container ports Read more…
Ensuring resilience for critical airport systems
Two new cooling systems will deliver massive carbon savings for one of the UK’s busiest airports, while reducing the risk of outages of critical IT systems Manchester Airport is one of the busiest in the UK, initially opening in 1938 as Ringway Airport. It is the global gateway for the north Read more…
Managing energy costs for mission critical sites
Ørsted’s Ashley Phillips explains how strategies around on-site generation, demand-side response and energy as a service can help mitigate the impact of rising energy costs As the colder weather sets in and energy needs are at their highest, energy has a significant impact on cost base for mission critical sites. Read more…
Evaluating availability of UPS architecture
A new white paper from Centiel has examined different UPS architectures and topologies to compare availability Ensuring a continuous supply of electrical power is vital in safety-critical environments such as hospitals, data centres and commercial institutions, where even the shortest of duration interruption may cause significant financial losses or even Read more…
Ensuring safe control of backup power
There is a more effective way of managing power than using PLCs, argues Deif’s René Kristensen. He builds the case for multi-master controlled power management systems. Mission critical sites must be able to trust their backup power systems, and a reliable control solution for detecting and acting on power issues Read more…
Are your assets protected?
You wouldn’t overlook the protection of any other form of capital investment, so why should telecommunication technology be any different? Carl Webb, from Andrews Sykes, outlines the crushing impact of avoidable negligence There are very few issues that can affect a business as quickly as server failure – where the Read more…
How to choose a UPS standby generator
Critical loads need protection from longer-duration blackouts as well as short-term power aberrations and cuts. UPSL’s Alex Emms looks at how to integrate a generator and UPS, and explores the key issues associated with installion of standby power into mission critical sites To date, the UK has had a reasonably Read more…
Countering the risks of battery storage
Battery storage has been a hot topic in the energy industry for a couple of years now. As the ‘halcyon days’ of high DFR revenues slip away, it’s important for businesses to counter the risks with a sensible and technologically smart approach. According to the recent 2018 Battery Storage report by The Energyst, Read more…
Averting distaster: learning from aviation
Design errors are still being ‘built in’ to data centres and human error continues to impact the industry. Could the data centre sector avoid catastrophic outages by adopting an incident reporting strategy? If the data centre sector fails to learn from incidents, we will see fatalities in the future, Read more…
Assets you can count on: unlocking hidden value in UPS
A new partnership will enable mission critical sites to monetise their power assets. A growing number of mission critical sites are now approaching their UPS providers to develop solutions to facilitate demand-side response. Louise Frampton reports Providers of critical infrastructure are now paving the way for mission critical facilities to Read more…
Data centres must improve awareness of energy-saving code of conduct
John Booth, an independent sustainable ICT consultant and the managing director of Carbon3IT, calls for greater awareness of energy efficiency best practice. With the projected growth in hyperscale, cloud, IoT and Edge, the sector needs to tackle its energy usage A decade after the introduction of the EU Code of Conduct Read more…
Ten technologies that could change data centres forever
A survey of experts by the Uptime Institute has highlighted the latest technologies with the most disruptive potential, and the sector is being urged to keep a close eye on these promising innovations. Louise Frampton reports If you knew an earthquake was coming, you would want to know “how big Read more…
Saft and Socomec deliver backup power system for Total’s supercomputer environment
Battery leader Saft and industrial group Socomec have delivered a high-performance UPS featuring lithium-ion data batteries for Total’s HPC data centre which hosts one of the world’s largest industrial supercomputer. Total’s supercomputer is a decision-support tool used for oil & gas exploration and field management. It allows to improve the Read more…
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