Articles by Todd Kiehn

A couple of months ago, I addressed the increased acceptance of shorter runtimes for UPS in data centers and other mission critical applications, but what was not discussed is why this trend is gaining steam.

Much of the discussion at VERGE San Francisco and Power Analytics' 20/20 Vision-Driven Power Conference in October centered on a familiar topic in our industry: the need to develop grid-scale energy storage to make renewable energy-based microgrids successful, and the billions of dollars in potential profit that await the companies that can successfully do so.

Data centers and other mission critical applications have long relied on several minutes of ride-through time using traditional batteries for their UPS systems.

Some failures are more significant than others.

In life, and in the business world, there’s a significant difference between theory and practice.

It’s always interesting to ask a friend what they were doing during a significant event in history.