The need to reduce spending is a common requirement within many if not all organisations on the planet today. The economic pressures combined with environmental responsibilities create a highly restricted direction for an organisation to be heading if they want to remain publically visible in the league table and financially viable.

The need for Uninterruptible Power Supply system’s still remains a must for a lot of organisations. Data centre operators have relied on the vital use of UPS systems for a substantial quantity of time. With energy costs having rapidly increased over recent years while external pressures for organisations to remain environmentally friendly also has significantly grown. Thus data centre solutions are required in the form of innovative UPS designs to help combat the pressures, both environmental and economic of today’s climate.

Previously bulky UPS systems were not flexible in terms of fluctuating critical loads. Thus these floor standing and large UPS cabinets not only consume larger quantities of energy and finance to operate, their carbon emissions exceed requirements from the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) – the latest government imposed component in significantly reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions.

UPS architecture has since advanced to become more compact, wall mounted battery racks comprising of a small set of modules. This evolution of UPS system allows for a much more flexible approach to being able to capacitate varying critical loads as and when required and making it much easier to right size the UPS to match the critical load of that specific data centre.

This development alone ticks all boxes in terms of environmental and economic repercussions for the data centre operator. In a domino like fashion, the right sized UPS significantly reduces energy consumption thus reducing carbon emission and of course the cost of operation. Furthermore, the saving in floor space allows for extra UPS fittings as and when required thus ensuring a more efficient use of the space.