Many operational wins happen quietly, and without tracking them, they’re easily forgotten during reviews or promotion discussions.
Resilience is no longer a “nice to have” add on to sustainability, it’s an operational requirement driven by more frequent, more costly hazard events and the realities of aging infrastructure.
Ensuring that facility operations don’t get interrupted by emergencies such as power outages or blackouts is a top priority for facility managers. To this end, there are a wide variety of backup power solutions to make sure a facility doesn’t go dark.
In this Facilities in Focus video, three different backup power solutions are explored: generators, uninterruptable power supplies (UPS) and battery energy storage systems (BESS). Each comes with its own advantages as well as drawbacks. However, one solution need not be used exclusively, as they can be layered together to ensure redundancy.
