Back-up Power and Power Reliability
Power outages cost U.S. businesses $80 billion every year. Given the age of the electric power infrastructure in the US and the considerable obstacles to upgrading it, the number of outages and the associated costs are expected only to increase. On-site renewable energy systems represent a cost-effective way to hedge against outages and to ensure continued operations.
A big advantage such systems have over alternatives such as back-up diesel generators is that they are always on. This way the owner is always assured the system will work in the event of an outage and at the same time the system is displacing high-cost power from the local utility. Dedicating the on-site renewable energy system to critical circuits ensures that those circuits are still working even when the power from the utility is out.
Americans spend billions annually on Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) to protect their computers and other digital equipment. Still, UPS systems consume electricity and increase energy costs. Even more importantly, they are up to 10 times more expensive than renewable energy systems on a per kilowatt-hour basis.
Switch provides a range of compact packages configured and sized to to meet high reliability standards, sufficient for example for the defense, telecommunications and data processing industries.
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