Active Power

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Website www.activepower.com Number of employees 234		Founded 1992

Industry Industrial Electrical Equipment Key people Mark Ascolese, President and CEO Products Flywheel Energy StorageUninterruptible Power StorageEmergency Power SystemModular Data Center Stock price PIOI (OTCMKTS) US$ 0.24 +0.01 (+3.26%)1 Mar, 4:00 PM GMT-5 - Disclaimer Headquarters Austin, Texas, United States Subsidiaries Active Power (Algeria) SARL

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Active Power designs, manufactures, sells, and services flywheel-based uninterruptible power supply (UPS) products that use kinetic energy to provide short-term power as an alternative to conventional battery-based UPS products. The company also designs and manufactures modular infrastructure solutions that integrate critical power components into a pre-packaged, purpose built enclosure that can include Active Power’s UPS products as a component.

The company’s products and solutions support and enable mission critical applications that cannot tolerate downtime due to a power disturbance across a number of industries including data centers, industrial/manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, broadcast, government, and casino/gaming. To date, Active Power has shipped more than 4,000 flywheels in UPS systems, delivering more than 1 gigawatt of critical backup power to customers in more than 50 countries around the world.

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1992–2000

Active Power was founded in 1992 as Magnetic Bearing Technologies, Inc., where the company manufactured magnetic bearings for a variety of applications.

In 1996, the company changed its name to Active Power and the following year introduced its first flywheel DC product.

In 1999, Active Power deployed its first flywheel UPS product which fully integrates flywheel energy storage and power electronics.

2001–2009

In 2007, the company opened its APAC headquarters in China.

2010–present

In 2010, The University of Texas at Austin chose to deploy Active Power UPS at its university data center.

In 2011, Active Power shipped its 3,000th flywheel.

In 2011, Active Power received a multimillion-dollar, multiple PowerHouse order from Hewlett-Packard.

In 2012, Heineken selected Active Power to provide critical power protection at its bottling facility off the coast of Madagascar.

In 2013, the company shipped its 4,000th flywheel including its next generation CleanSource HD UPS product.

In 2014, Capgemini selected Active Power to provide critical power infrastructure for a UK data center expansion.

In 2014, Verizon Terremark significantly expanded the power capacity of their Silicon Valley data center by deploying four PowerHouse units.

References

Active Power Wikipedia

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