Active Power Receives Multimillion Dollar Order for 7.6MW of Mission Critical Power Systems
Active Power, Inc. announced a multimillion dollar order from a blue-chip European based customer for containerized mobile power systems delivering a total of 7.6MW of power. Each Diesel uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system contains Active Power’s 1500iC flywheel based UPS systems, switchgear and 1.9MW diesel generators. All of these components will be housed in acoustic containers for flexible mobile deployment. The packaging includes fuel tanks, cable deployment systems and redundant engine starting systems integrating Active Power’s GenSTART™ module. Installation is scheduled for later this year.
Active Power’s 1500iC system features a fully scalable and modular design that can easily be expanded for increased capacity or redundancy. The system is claimed to offer clients a more cost effective and flexible solution over that of competing technologies.
"This solution was a perfect fit for our customer requirements," said Jim Murphy, Vice President for Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific for Active Power. "The modularity of our extensively field proven units, their inherent space efficiency and operating temperature range played a big factor in the customer’s decision making process and the selection of Active Power. We are the only supplier that can integrate UPS redundancy with a single engine and eliminate the common failure points of Diesel UPS solutions in this size of package. We are delighted our units will be protecting one of the world’s largest data processing operators."
