Power Vents

Critical power

Schneider Electric and its Square D Critical Power Competency Center (CPCC) launched a newly redesigned Web site. One of the main features on the new site is the creation of the Critical Power Technical Reference Repository that contains recently released and archived white papers and technical presentations. Another site feature is the Data Center Demo interactive tool that demonstrates the components and operation of a typical Tier IV data center power system. Users can even simulate different scenarios, such as a utility failure or a UPS output cable fault. To view the new Web site and the included Critical Power Technical Reference Repository, visit www.criticalpowernow.com.

Ultralife buys U.S. Energy

Battery supplier Ultralife has announced its intention to acquire U.S. Energy Systems, which specializes in standby power installation and power management services as well as UPS systems, dc power systems, and switchgear/control systems for the telecommunications, utilities, technology, petrochemical, financial, and information services industries. For more information go to www.ultralifecorp.com.

UPS growth report

Growth in worldwide shipments of medium and large UPS devices outpaced shipments of smaller UPSs by more than 2 to 1 over the last two years, say analysts at VDC Research Group. This trend will continue, say VDC analysts in the multivolume study 2008 Power Protection: Global Market Demand Analysis . For more information, contact VDC Research Group online at www.vdcresearch.com.