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Eaton Offering Facilitates Renewable Power

Power management company Eaton has launched Energy Aware, an offering that helps energy-intensive industries stabilise the grid and contribute to more renewable power.

Eaton Energy Aware counts among its customers energy-intensive organisations such as data centres, manufacturers and airports.

The offering uses Eaton’s reserve uninterruptible power supply (UPS) to enable organisations to support grid stability while still powering their operations. This helps grid operators stabilise emergency fluctuations in system frequency which occur as a result of increasing variable renewable energy.

Eaton’s Ciarán Forde commented: “This is an innovation that transforms a large electrical infrastructure into a network that can contribute to the grid and not only consume power. The primary role of the infrastructure doesn’t change, but by enabling organisations to take part in EirGrid’s DS3 system services, it offsets its costs and helps them hit green targets by enabling renewable energy.”

According to Eaton, pilot projects have shown that the technology provides a viable and fast-acting power reserve to the grid while maintaining the UPS’s primary function of securing electrical loads, further de-risking any instability from the country’s increasing use of renewable generation. The solution is offered with new Eaton UPSs or as an upgrade for existing Eaton UPS customers.

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Eaton had global sales of $21.6 billion in 2018.

Photo: Eaton executives Craig McDonnell (left) and Ciarán Forde with Peter Connolly (right) of Enel X. (Pic: Colm Mahady / Fennells)

 

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