Active Power, Inc., inventor and manufacturer of the most energy-efficient critical power systems in the world, has received an order from Tesco PLC, one of Europe's largest retailers, for two of its PowerHouse containerised power systems. Each PowerHouse contains a full continuous power system suitable to protect the load at this mission critical datacenter located north of London. The international grocery and general merchandising retail chain will deploy both containerised power systems to protect the company's datacenter against power sags, fluctuations and outages. The systems are expected to be delivered in the second half of 2008.
"Tesco needed to increase their power capacity onsite, but is space constrained which is common, particularly among datacenter operators in the UK, said Jim Murphy, vice president of sales EMEA for Active Power. "Our containerised system aligns extremely well with what Tesco is trying to accomplish at their datacenter facility and also company wide. Tesco is committed to reducing its energy consumption, aiming to halve their energy use by 2010 against a baseline of 2000. The deployment of Active Power's energy efficient, battery free UPS (uninterruptible power supply) systems will help them achieve that goal. The two UPS systems Tesco will deploy shall save enough energy to power 196 average households and displace as much as 1,586 tons of CO2 emissions each year.
Tesco will replace two 800kVA conventional battery based UPS systems currently in place with two of Active Power's PowerHouse systems, each container made up of one CleanSource