Onsite Power in 'Smart Office Parks' Will Prove Key Driver for Tech Growth.Business/Technology Editors DANBURY, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 30, 2001 Citing Austin Energy Austin Energy is the public utility providing electrical power service to a 421 square mile area including Austin, Texas and parts of the surrounding area in Travis and Williamson counties. It is owned by the City of Austin. Report, Sure Power Executive Sees Distributed Generation As Ultra-Reliable Power Answer For Data-Dependent Firms From the Silicon Valley to Boston's Route 128, high tech hubs rely on attracting and nurturing computer-dependent, 24x7 businesses. To safeguard their economic futures, these regions should heed a leading utility's call for creation of "smart office parks" that would rely on ultra-reliable onsite power systems, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Patrick Hanley, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Sure Power Corporation (www.surepowersystem.com). In a report released today, Austin Energy, the nation's tenth largest municipally-owned utility, calls grid-connected distributed generation Distributed generation generates electricity from many small energy sources. It has also been called also called on-site generation, dispersed generation, embedded generation, decentralized generation, decentralized energy or solutions "especially useful in meeting unpredictable power needs." Large-scale Internet server farms and data processing data processing or information processing, operations (e.g., handling, merging, sorting, and computing) performed upon data in accordance with strictly defined procedures, such as recording and summarizing the financial transactions of a centers particularly confront a spectrum of power problems, according to Austin Energy, from the rolling blackouts Rolling blackout refers to an intentionally-engineered electrical power outage, caused by insufficient available resources to meet prevailing demand for electricity. For information about accidental blackouts that are not intentionally engineered, see power outage. of the sort that have recently plagued California, to an insatiable hunger for high-quality, high-volume power required to fuel high tech-based business growth. "Utilities and their communities across the country face mounting demand for reliable supplies of high-quality electricity to power data centers and other mission-critical systems," Sure Power's Hanley noted. "Installed at the kind of `smart office park' Austin Energy envisions, an onsite power system can mean the difference between continued economic growth in a region's high tech sector, or the loss of high-paying jobs and taxes." Top Bank's "Smart Building" Runs On Sure Power System According to IDC, a Massachusetts-based analyst firm, the managed Web hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. market is expected to balloon from $4 billion in 2001 to $17.2 billion in 2004. In power outages This is a list of famous wide-scale power outages. 1965
Located in the thriving high tech community known as "Silicon Hills," where such "Internet hotels" are common, Austin Energy sponsored a data center design conference in February that sought answers to the dilemma of delivering the non-stop, high-quality electricity technology companies require for their critical daily operations. "As more and more of the nations' businesses rely on electronic data to do business, powering the Internet becomes critical," Charles B. Manning, Jr., the utility's general manager, declared in the conference report issued today. At the invitation of Austin Energy, Sure Power representatives detailed for conference-goers their next-generation onsite power solution. Sure Power systems, which are custom designed to meet the specific needs of individual facilities, achieve power reliability that is 100 to 1,000 times greater than the levels provided by conventional grid-based power backed up by batteries and generators. A Sure Power system at the First National Bank of Omaha, the nation's seventh largest credit card transaction processor and largest privately owned bank, operates its 200,000-square-foot technology center with a constant supply of computer-grade power. The bank's system runs independently of the power grid and attains 99.9999% uptime, or "six 9s" of availability, according to MTECHNOLOGY, a Boston-based probabilistic (probability) probabilistic - Relating to, or governed by, probability. The behaviour of a probabilistic system cannot be predicted exactly but the probability of certain behaviours is known. Such systems may be simulated using pseudorandom numbers. risk analysis firm. "Omaha's `smart building' of today is clearly the forerunner of the `smart office park' of the future," said Hanley. "The Sure Power system there has run without interruption for two years, and has provided electricity though grid outages and other utility problems." About Sure Power Corporation Sure Power Corporation, a privately-held company located in Danbury, Conn., delivers computer-grade electricity at "six 9s" availability and better, exceeding the highest availability levels required for mainframe computers and high-end servers. Its distributed generation systems are at the forefront of the onsite power industry. Spencer Trask Spencer Trask was an American financier, philanthropist, and venture capitalist. Beginning in the 1870s, Trask began investing and supporting entrepreneurs, including Thomas Edison's invention of the electric light bulb. , a New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. venture capital firm, owns a minority stake in the company. With Sure Power's high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. power systems, users realize substantially increased uptime, allowing for higher revenues and fewer unexpected losses. Sure Power has partnerships with both High-Point Rendel and R.W. Beck in the construction, planning and design of its systems. More information about Sure Power Corporation can be found at www.surepowersystem.com. |
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