600 UK power cuts
Chloride, one of Europe's leading suppliers of Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems and services, is strongly advising UK businesses to deploy resilient UPS systems in order to protect their mission critical equipment and processes
Power cuts are a real and increasingly likely threat to business continuity throughout the UK, due to an ageing energy generation infrastructure and reduced capacity to meet energy demand. During 2007-2008, the National Grid reported over 600 events where transmission circuits were disconnected automatically, or by urgent manual switching.
Chloride has taken this initiative following worrying reports from CapGemini, which have confirmed the growing fears of the business community regarding power availability, stating that electricity output has fallen by 2.2%, the lowest level in 10 years.
Chloride carried out an analysis of its 2,300 UPS systems currently connected to its unique LIFE.net monitoring system and found that, during an average month, the system recorded more than 450,000 voltage spikes, dips, irregularities and breaks in the electricity supply, all of which can be harmful to mission critical equipment and processes. Additionally, Chloride found that power failures occurred every 832 hours and alarmingly, brownouts occurred every three hours.
