Companies that employee sophisticated, sensitive,
digital equipment or those engaged in continuous process manufacturing can be
severely impacted by power outages and incidents of reduced power quality.
“Across all business sectors, the U.S. economy is losing between $104 billion
and $164 billion a year to outages and another $15 billion to $24 billion to PQ
(power quality) phenomena” (Lineweber & McNulty, 2001) . In the same way
that large scale energy storage can help a utility avoid power outages and
degradations to power quality, end users can ride through outages and maintain
power quality by employing energy storage on a smaller, more distributed scale.
The investment in energy storage can be largely offset by reducing or eliminating
lost productivity or equipment damage caused by these power quality events (Baxter, 2012) .
Works Cited
Baxter, R. (2012, November 28). Author, Energy
Storage; a Nontechnical Guide. (M. Banta, Interviewer)
Lineweber, D., & McNulty, S. (2001). The Cost
of Power Disturbances to Industrial & Digital Economy Companies.
Madison, WI: EPRI.
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