Italian power company Borri has launched UPSaver, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) designed for high efficiency use in data centers.
The transformer-less UPSaver can run at high efficiency using Borri's Green Conversion battery management algorithm which doubles conversion efficiency and increases battery life. The 100kW or 200kW unitis, available as either standalone systems or for combination in modular systems, were launched at the Datacenter Dynamics Converged event in London this week.
UPS with green cred
"Our Green Conversion technology is designed to significantly improve efficiency, using the conversion made by the UPS only when needed," said Borri's president and chief technical officer Enrico Simoni.
Borri has been making and selling Eco Mode UPS systems for sime time, and has a customer list including the CERN physics lab in Switzerland, which uses a specially designed Borri UPS in the large Hadron Collider (pictured above)
Its UK site details how Eco mode, which includes the use of IGBT (insulated gate bipolar transistor) input to reduced distortion can reduce the energy wasted in a UPS by ten percent.
These savings can pay for a new UPS in two years - and the site also explains how money spent installing a more efficient UPS systems is eligible for tax rebates in the UK.
The new UPSaver units have their own site, which sets out the benefits of the new range, which Borri likes to refer to as "UPS 4.0". The systems have an AC/AC efficiency of up to 99.5 percent, and can be combined in parallel to deliver up to 12.5MW.
The new systems are already in use by global energy company Eni, in a high-reliabilty (Tier IV) green data center used for HPC and general IT, which has a PUE (power usage effectiveness of less than 1.2 thank, in part, to Borri.