If Justification for UPS Were Needed……….
A rash of power cuts around the UK have hit the headlines in recent days:
In the South, between Basingstoke and Reading, 800 homes experienced a total loss of supply just after 6am on 15th October. On October 19th, thousands of people in North West London were without electricity for six hours when a fault in a local power substation led to electricity failure. Canon Park Tube station was also affected. Then, on October 21st, it was Lancashire’s turn with a 133,000-volt electricity cable catching fire on a bridge over the river Calder near a former power station. It led to the closure of roads in the area and houses having to be evacuated.
Three in seven days - and these are only the ones that hit the headlines. Is this unusual?
Anyone needing to justify a UPS purchase need only take a look at the following statistics: according to The Secretary of State’s Second Report to Parliament on Security of Gas and Electricity Supply in Great Britain - July 2006, published by the DTI (http://www.berr.gov.uk/), between April 2005 and March 2006, the total number of customer interruptions was around 21 million and the total number of customer minutes lost 1,966 million.
Our ever-increasing demand for electricity suggests that the situation will only get worse - not better.
