Trinergy could save you hundred thousand on electric bills a year, claims Chloride

Most UPSs consumer between three and eight per cent of the power they are supposed to be regulating. However, Chloride claims its new  range of Trilogy UPSs (uninterruptible power supplies) is 99 per cent efficient. Since the Trilogy range easily meets the criteria laid down by the Carbon Trust, the purchaser is entitled to tax breaks.
This means its new Class 1 UPS range, Trinergy, could not only be bought at a fraction of the market price (once tax has been offset) it could also save big data centre managers up to £100,000 a year on IT.
Under the Enhanced Capital Allowances (ECA) scheme, tax rates are available to offset the costs of any high efficiency IT equipment. The secret is in the Trilogy range’s Double Conversion technology. While double conversion technology involves a significant loss of efficiency in most manufacturer’s products, Chloride claims to have refined the process to such a point that it can save on the electricity lost elsewhere in the supply chain.
“Double conversion is a necessary evil but it consumes significant power,” explained Rob Chandler, Chloride’s technical support manager, “but we’ve achieved much greater efficiency to cut the power losses significantly.”
Trinergy is a high power modular system, scalable up to 9.6MW. Chloride claims it is the most energy efficient Class 1 UPS currently available for protecting critical sites such as Tier 3 and Tier 4 data centres from disruptions to mains power supply.

How can it save you £100,000 a year?
Do the maths. The average working efficiency in a typical data centre environment is 97.9 per cent. So for a 1MW Trinergy UPS, power savings can amount to 67kW continuously per year.