With major data center operators signing the European Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact to achieve net zero by 2030, the sustainability credentials of their electrical equipment are increasingly important in the race to go green. ABB has responded by securing a prestigious PEP ecopassport® label for its MegaFlex DPA, which offers power ranges of up to six MW in one system.
The PEP association consists of manufacturers, users, institutional and professional associations. It is responsible for implementing the PEP ecopassport® programme, which verifies stringent performance criteria throughout a product’s life cycle: manufacturing, distribution, installation, use, and end-of-life. Providing an international reference framework, the programme ensures reliable, transparent, comparable and verified environmental performance indicators for electrical, electronical, heating and cooling equipment.
ABB’s MegaFlex DPA provides best-in-class efficiency of 97.4 percent and reduces carbon emissions by 641 tons during the lifetime of the product which equates to 200 passenger vehicles driven for one year. Its compact design also provides a footprint saving up to 45 percent and its design life of up to 15 years reduces the total cost of ownership. The most reliable UPS of its kind on the market, its modular design supports easy and safe connections and is based on ABB’s decentralized parallel architecture (DPA). This innovative system means every module is practically its own UPS, with all the essential functional units needed for independent operation – maximizing reliability and availability.
Diana Garcia, Sustainability Leader - Power Protection, ABB Smart Power division said: “We are proud to achieve this label which provides third-party validation of the MegaFlex DPA’s eco credentials. Meeting the increasing power demands of modern data storage solutions requires a continuous flow of clean, sustainable power and system-wide resiliency. Our MegaFlex DPA UPS solution combines the highest efficiency ratings available with the smallest footprint, contributing to a lower carbon global data cen-ter industry.”
As a data center’s power requirements can fluctuate significantly, a high level of adaptability is required to manage energy usage levels. MegaFlex DPA’s intelligent system minimizes losses and improves effi-ciency by automatically adjusting the number of active modules according to the power load require-ment. Modules that are not needed revert to standby, ready to reactivate if the load increases. Using cloud-based predictive maintenance, MegaFlex DPA also provides continuous, site-specific monitoring to plan and reduce maintenance – reducing operational cost and material waste during its whole life cycle.
In 2020 the solution was awarded the Solar Impulse Foundation’s “Efficient Solution” label, an im-portant recognition of ABB’s work to reduce power losses.
For more information on MegaFlex, please visit https://new.abb.com/ups/ups-and-power-conditioning/megaflex
