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Dr Ian F Bitterlin: My name’s Ian Bitterlin and I’m a chartered engineer. I’ve been
in the data centre industry for the best part of 25 years.
One of the biggest problems with UPS in data centres, certainly to date with the exception
of the very largest users, is partial load.
No one seems to be able to predict the way the load will grow, so one of the problems
for UPS is running a partial load is a problem with relative low efficiency,
which has been vastly improved with the advent of new IGBT and transformer-less UPS's but
nonetheless, it's still a problem.
It's solved by scalable designs, and solved in particular by modular designs, especially
in the mid power range.
So a modular design can be bought, and you can scale your power up and down to suit the
load and operate the UPS system at its maximum efficiency all of the time, which will obviously
minimise your costs.