August 12, 2019
Running UPS in Economy Mode to Save Energy
Uninterruptible power supplies can be viewed as both power quality and backup power solutions.
Within the rapidly growing data center market there is a growing awareness of the
potential to run on-line UPS in a less resilient power mode known as ECO-mode to reduce
operating costs (electricity usage and to a degree environmental cooling) and improve power
usage eff ectiveness (PUE). This document discusses the advantages and disadvantages of such
an approach, and the longer-term implications for UPS systems within an IT environment.