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A New Initiative Celebrates Performance, Safety and Sustainability of Zinc Batteries
It’s not often an industry throws a party, but the Zinc Battery Initiative (ZBI) sure feels like one to us. The fun started last year when the International Zinc Association formed ZBI to promote rechargeable zinc batteries’ remarkable story and promote their advantages across many applications. While each participating member has its own proprietary technology, […]
April 28, 2021 -
Ensuring ESS Safety in Data Centers with NFPA 855 – Part 2
Data center safety is a growing challenge as facilities expand in size and number, along with their UPS and battery systems. Now there is a single guiding document, NFPA 855, to help operators manage the potential risk from all that stored energy. In the first blog post in this two-part series, we provided an overview of regulatory […]
April 7, 2021 -
Ensuring ESS Safety in Data Centers with NFPA 855 – Part 1
As data centers expand in size and number, so will the demand for sufficient, reliable and safe backup power. UPS battery systems will get larger and distributed more widely, which will heighten scrutiny on potential hazards from all that stored energy. In this first post in a two-part series, we’ll provide an overview of the […]
March 31, 2021 -
Comparing the Climate Impact of Batteries on Data Center Sustainability
To make deeper cuts in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, data center operators need to take a look at the bigger picture. In a prior blog post, we pointed out how lead-acid batteries are a data center sustainability challenge hiding in plain sight. Lead-acid batteries contain significant amounts of lead and other hazardous materials that create […]
March 9, 2021 -
Nickel-Zinc: High Power Density Backup Power for Data Centers
The Powerful and Safe Bet for the Data Center Footprint Challenge Data center real estate is always at a premium. Every square foot used for servers and storage can generate more revenue. So reducing the power infrastructure footprint can boost revenue, impact safety and also has implications for backup capacity. We call this the Footprint […]
February 9, 2021 -
The Hidden Sustainability Challenge in your Data Center
Data centers make a big impact in our world. The number of data centers across the globe rose to roughly 9,100 in 2019 from 7,500 in 2018.[1] As a result, data center electricity consumption is projected to increase to roughly 140 billion kilowatt-hours in 2020 in the U.S. alone, which equates to about 150 million metric […]
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Zinc Chemistry Challenges Lithium-Ion in 2021
As we put 2020 in the rear-view mirror, most of us are anxious for a return to something resembling “normal” in 2021. But one area that is rapidly changing (and never going back) is energy storage. Zinc chemistry will be one of the factors driving change this year. An increasing number of industries are transforming […]
