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Active Power
American uninterruptible power supply manufacturer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Active Power Inc. designs, manufactures, sells, and services flywheel-based uninterruptible power supply (UPS) products that use kinetic energy to provide short-term power as an alternative to conventional battery-based UPS products. The company also designs and manufactures modular devices that integrate critical power components into a pre-packaged, purpose built enclosure that can include Active Power’s UPS products as a component.[1]
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The company’s products are used in a number of industries including data centers, industrial/manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, broadcast, government, and casino/gaming. To date, Active Power has shipped more than 4,000 flywheels in UPS systems, delivering more than 1 gigawatt of critical backup power to customers in more than 50 countries around the world.[2]
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History
1992–2000
- Active Power was founded in 1992 as Magnetic Bearing Technologies, Inc., where the company manufactured magnetic bearings for a variety of applications.
- In 1996, the company changed its name to Active Power and the following year introduced its first flywheel DC product.
- In 1999, Active Power deployed its first flywheel UPS product which fully integrates flywheel energy storage and power electronics.[3]
2001–2009
2010–present
- In 2010, The University of Texas at Austin chose to deploy Active Power UPS at its university data center.[5]
- In 2011, Active Power shipped its 3,000th flywheel.
- In 2011, Active Power received a multimillion-dollar, multiple PowerHouse order from Hewlett-Packard.[6]
- In 2012, Heineken selected Active Power to provide critical power protection at its bottling facility off the coast of Madagascar.[7]
- In 2013, the company shipped its 4,000th flywheel including its next generation CleanSource HD UPS product.[8][9]
- In 2014, Capgemini selected Active Power to provide critical power infrastructure for a UK data center expansion.[10]
- In 2014, Verizon Terremark significantly expanded the power capacity of their Silicon Valley data center by deploying four PowerHouse units.[11]
- In 2016, it was acquired by Piller Power Systems.[12] The new system with longer UPS runtime was launched.[13][14][15][16]
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