Sure Power, Creator of the High Availabity Power System, is in 'Cool Company'.DANBURY, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 23, 1999-- -- Energy Expert Joe Romm Includes Sure Power Corporation Among Ford, GE and Xerox as Environmentally-Friendly Company -- Cool Companies: How the Best Businesses Boost Profits and Productivity by Cutting Greenhouse Gas greenhouse gas n. Any of the atmospheric gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect. greenhouse gas Emissions (Island Press, 1999), cites Sure Power(TM) Corporation of Danbury, Conn. as a provider of a new, more efficient and environmentally-friendly power source. The author, Joseph J. Romm Dr. Joseph J. Romm was born on June 27 1960 in Middletown, New York. Romm is an author, blogger, lecturer, and scientist, who has concentrated on problems related to global warming, energy efficiency, green energy technologies and green transportation technologies. , director of the Center for Energy and Climate Solutions, is an environmental expert and energy consultant, was an Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy. The Sure Power 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. system offers an alternative to traditional uninterruptible power supplies See UPS. (hardware) Uninterruptible Power Supply - (UPS) A battery powered power supply unit that is guaranteed to provide power to a computer in the event of interruptions in the incoming mains electrical power. , batteries and standby diesel generator A diesel generator is the combination of a diesel engine with an electrical generator (often called an alternator) to generate electric energy. Diesel generators are used in places without connection to the power grid or as emergency power-supply if the grid fails. sets that corporate data centers and other facilities typically use to condition grid electricity and supply back-up power in case of grid power outage Noun 1. power outage - equipment failure resulting when the supply of power fails; "the ice storm caused a power outage" power failure equipment failure, breakdown - a cessation of normal operation; "there was a power breakdown" . Sure Power uses proprietary designs to integrate ONSI ONSI Orion Network Systems, Inc Corp.'s PC 25 fuel cells and rotary equipment from Piller, Inc., to create a primary, on-site, power source with unprecedented uptime. In May 1999, First National Bank of Omaha became the nation's first computer-reliant enterprise to activate the Sure Power High Availability Power System. "It is particularly satisfying to me that the (power supply) system with the lowest life-cycle cost for the bank and the best availability performance also has the best environmental performance: more than one-third lower emissions of carbon dioxide carbon dioxide, chemical compound, CO2, a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that is about one and one-half times as dense as air under ordinary conditions of temperature and pressure. and under one one-thousandth the emissions of other air pollutants pollutants see environmental pollution. ," said Romm. "In every way it is a cool system." 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. Romm, this "cool" system is able to cut harmful gas emissions by almost 50 percent while reducing the energy bill and increasing productivity. Sure Power's "High Availability" power plant is 100 to 1,000 times more reliable than traditional electricity conditioning and standby methodologies. Only heat and water are byproducts of the Sure Power System. The long term reliability of the Sure Power High Availability System is measured in percentages of uptime - for example, 99.999% or "six 9s." By providing computer grade power at "six 9s" availability, the Sure Power system is allowing First National Bank of Omaha's new 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 center to practically negate electricity problem to dramatically increase its computer uptime. The result: the bank better serves its customers and, in turn, generates higher revenues. "At Sure Power we are proud to be listed among Ford, GE and Xerox - all of which are `cool companies' - as business leaders who are seriously thinking about preserving the environment while allowing their enterprises to continue to grow," said William Cratty, President, Sure Power Corporation. "The credibility and insights that Joe Romm brings to these concerns will help heighten industry awareness of the competitive advantage of environmentally-friendly energy systems. Joe has made a career studying the environmental impact of energy consumption at Fortune 500 companies. The insights he presents in Cool Companies will be extremely worthwhile for CIOs, CEOs and COOs." About Sure Power Corporation Sure Power Corporation of Danbury, Conn., delivers computer-grade electricity at "six 9s" availability and better, exceeding the highest availability levels required for the computers of today and tomorrow. With Sure Power's High Availability Power Systems, users realize substantially increased uptime, allowing for higher revenues and few unexpected losses. More information about Sure Power Corporation can be found at www.hi-availability.com. About Joseph J. Romm Romm is the author of Lean and Clean Management: How to Increase Profits and Productivity by Reducing Pollution (1994) and The Once and Future Surepower: How to Restore America's Economic, Energy, and Environmental Security (1992). |
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