Beacon Power Corp. (Wilmington, MA) announced its first steps in entering the high-power UPS market. “We will utilize Beacon's proprietary technology to achieve a sustainable advantage in this market," said Bill Capp, president and CEO. "Our technology offers high performance and reliability and is ideally suited to support the higher-power needs of our customers, particularly in critical power quality applications. Our state-of-the-art products will offer a number of advantages, including significantly lower maintenance costs, a smaller footprint freeing valuable space at customer sites, high efficiency and the flexibility to install multiple units to meet a broad range of customer needs."