Our society has become highly dependent on electrical power. Directly or indirectly this impacts the average person, as well as businesses and government agencies at virtually every level, making reliability a primary mandate.

Nonetheless, in today’s energy conscious and environmentally-aware world, today’s power management systems need to be agile to accommodate sustainable energy sources, such as solar and wind, which by their very nature are intermittent. Therefore, power management systems must be intelligent to adapt to more dynamic power sources. Moreover, the facility power infrastructure must be flexible when it comes to accommodating variable demands and potential capacity increases over the expected operational life of the facility.

As a result, many new facilities are considering customized modular power systems which allow them to cost effectively and seamlessly meet these challenges.

Julius Neudorfer is the CTO and founder of North American Access Technologies, Inc.(NAAT). Based in Westchester, NY, NAAT’s clients include Fortune 500 firms and government agencies. NAAT has been designing and implementing data center infrastructure and related technology projects for the last 25 years. Julius is a member of AFCOM, ASHRAE, BICSI, IEEE and The Green Grid. He is a Master Instructor for the DC-Professional Development program, as well as for the U.S. Department of Energy “Data Center Energy Practitioner” “DCEP” program. He developed and holds a U.S. patent for a high efficiency cooling system for rack mounted computer equipment. He writes the “Hot Aisle Insight” column at Mission Critical, and has also written numerous articles and whitepapers for various IT and data center publications and has presented seminars and webinars on data center power, cooling and energy efficiency.

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