Active Power Inc. (Austin, TX), a developer of battery-free, power quality products, announced that it successfully completed the second of five milestones for its new battery-free, energy storage system by operating a prototype at 80 kW for 15 minutes. The new prototype delivers double the energy of the previous unit and has achieved the desired output power for the first version of the product.
Active Power’s extended runtime product is initially slated to replace lead-acid batteries in the three-phase, uninterruptible power supply (UPS) market below 100 kVA, which is approximately 45% of the overall $2 billion, three-phase UPS market. Follow-on versions of the technology platform will be directed toward the low-power telecommunications sector and its approximately $4 billion backup power market.
"This new product opens up several low-power market segments that our current products don’t address," stated Joe Pinkerton, chairman and CEO of Active Power. "By delivering well over 20 times the energy of our current flywheel, the new battery-free product will allow us to satisfy the extended runtime demands of an entirely new set of customers."
