Pentadyne Flywheel Again Wins Top Product Pick from Buildings Magazine
Chatsworth, Calif. – June 9, 2008 – Pentadyne Power Corporation, the world’s leading commercial manufacturer of clean energy storage systems using advanced composite flywheel technology, today announced that Buildings magazine has again selected the company’s VSS+DC system as a 2008 Editors’ Choice Top Product Pick.
Buildings bestowed the same award last year on the Pentadyne flywheel, an affordable and sustainable alternative to the dozens of environmentally hostile lead-acid batteries commonly used with larger-scale uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems.
“This money-saving approach rids facilities of the health and safety hazards of lead-acid battery banks,” the magazine states.
Buildings is a 100-year old publication read by more than 72,000 commercial building owners and professional facilities managers. Its readers are responsible for nearly 4.5 million commercial and institutional buildings nationwide.
Throughout the year, Buildings’ editorial board maintains a database of innovative and efficient products to help its readers in their responsibilities for building development, construction, modernization, management and operations. The editors reviewed thousands of products and picked the top 100 they felt were worthy of recognition above all others.
Criteria for selection includes aesthetics, ease of use, durability/life-cycle, efficiency, universal appeal and sustainable/green aspects, among others.
“Buildings magazine particularly focuses on energy efficient and environmentally beneficial products,” said Pentadyne CEO Mark McGough. “Our flywheel systems use less than 1/10th the power needed by the nearest competing product. That alone saves thousands of dollars in utility bills and 38,000 pounds of carbon emissions every year for each module deployed. In addition, each Pentadyne system deployed instead of UPS lead-acid batteries prevents battery greenhouse gas emissions as well as the dumping of more than 15,000 pounds of lead and hundreds of gallons of sulfuric acid over the course of its design life.”
The list of products is in the magazine’s June 2008 issue.
“We are pleased to include the Pentadyne VSS+DC system as a Top Product Pick as a solution to improve the energy efficiency and reliability of continuous mission-critical IT and process operations at our readers’ facilities,” said Buildings Editorial Director Linda Monroe.
Exhibiting at upcoming trade shows
Emerson Network Power will be exhibiting the Pentadyne-made Liebert FS flywheel system at the Turner Logistics tradeshow in Long Beach, California, June 10 and 11, and again at the Next Generation Data Center tradeshow in San Francisco, California, August 5-7. Also on August 7, Toshiba International will exhibit the Pentadyne flywheel in their booth at the Texas Association of Broadcasters show in Austin, Texas.
About Pentadyne Power Corporation
Hundreds of award-winning Pentadyne clean energy storage systems are deployed as a part of battery-free UPS solutions at commercial, industrial, medical and government facilities worldwide. The company’s bearing-free, magnetically levitated carbon fiber flywheels are the world’s most energy efficient, using 90% less power than other UPS flywheels. Pentadyne systems deliver vastly higher long-term reliability and uptime availability with a fraction of the footprint, weight, maintenance needs and recurring costs of hazardous lead-acid UPS batteries. An ISO-9001-certified company, Pentadyne Power Corporation designs and manufactures its environmentally responsible products at its factory in Greater Los Angeles; they are sold by several of the world’s leading manufacturers of UPS systems.
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Editors:
Buildings magazine Top 100 Products list is at:
www.buildings.com/articles/detail.aspx?ContentID=6040
Product details are at:
www.pentadyne.com/specs
Press Contacts:
Keith Field
Vice-President of Marketing
Pentadyne Power Corporation
(818) 350-0370 x210
Email: keith.field@pentadyne.com
Linda Monroe
Editorial Director
Buildings magazine
(319) 364-6167 x5059
Buildings bestowed the same award last year on the Pentadyne flywheel, an affordable and sustainable alternative to the dozens of environmentally hostile lead-acid batteries commonly used with larger-scale uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems.
“This money-saving approach rids facilities of the health and safety hazards of lead-acid battery banks,” the magazine states.
Buildings is a 100-year old publication read by more than 72,000 commercial building owners and professional facilities managers. Its readers are responsible for nearly 4.5 million commercial and institutional buildings nationwide.
Throughout the year, Buildings’ editorial board maintains a database of innovative and efficient products to help its readers in their responsibilities for building development, construction, modernization, management and operations. The editors reviewed thousands of products and picked the top 100 they felt were worthy of recognition above all others.
Criteria for selection includes aesthetics, ease of use, durability/life-cycle, efficiency, universal appeal and sustainable/green aspects, among others.
“Buildings magazine particularly focuses on energy efficient and environmentally beneficial products,” said Pentadyne CEO Mark McGough. “Our flywheel systems use less than 1/10th the power needed by the nearest competing product. That alone saves thousands of dollars in utility bills and 38,000 pounds of carbon emissions every year for each module deployed. In addition, each Pentadyne system deployed instead of UPS lead-acid batteries prevents battery greenhouse gas emissions as well as the dumping of more than 15,000 pounds of lead and hundreds of gallons of sulfuric acid over the course of its design life.”
The list of products is in the magazine’s June 2008 issue.
“We are pleased to include the Pentadyne VSS+DC system as a Top Product Pick as a solution to improve the energy efficiency and reliability of continuous mission-critical IT and process operations at our readers’ facilities,” said Buildings Editorial Director Linda Monroe.
Exhibiting at upcoming trade shows
Emerson Network Power will be exhibiting the Pentadyne-made Liebert FS flywheel system at the Turner Logistics tradeshow in Long Beach, California, June 10 and 11, and again at the Next Generation Data Center tradeshow in San Francisco, California, August 5-7. Also on August 7, Toshiba International will exhibit the Pentadyne flywheel in their booth at the Texas Association of Broadcasters show in Austin, Texas.
About Pentadyne Power Corporation
Hundreds of award-winning Pentadyne clean energy storage systems are deployed as a part of battery-free UPS solutions at commercial, industrial, medical and government facilities worldwide. The company’s bearing-free, magnetically levitated carbon fiber flywheels are the world’s most energy efficient, using 90% less power than other UPS flywheels. Pentadyne systems deliver vastly higher long-term reliability and uptime availability with a fraction of the footprint, weight, maintenance needs and recurring costs of hazardous lead-acid UPS batteries. An ISO-9001-certified company, Pentadyne Power Corporation designs and manufactures its environmentally responsible products at its factory in Greater Los Angeles; they are sold by several of the world’s leading manufacturers of UPS systems.
# # #
Editors:
Buildings magazine Top 100 Products list is at:
www.buildings.com/articles/detail.aspx?ContentID=6040
Product details are at:
www.pentadyne.com/specs
Press Contacts:
Keith Field
Vice-President of Marketing
Pentadyne Power Corporation
(818) 350-0370 x210
Email: keith.field@pentadyne.com
Linda Monroe
Editorial Director
Buildings magazine
(319) 364-6167 x5059