We were very proud to be crowned winner of the ‘Data Centre Energy Efficiency Project of the Year’ award at the prestigious DCS Awards 2016, held last May at London's Grange St Paul's Hotel. The DCS Awards is the leading event to recognise and acknowledge excellence in the data centre industry.
Accepting the award on behalf of its Irish distributor, Pure Power Systems, Riello UPS Ltd was recognised for its project to drive efficiencies for Ireland’s largest telecoms operator, Eir. Pure Power Systems was appointed to provide the solution for eir’s backup power requirements in its two data centres as part of a €6.7m project.
Receiving the award on behalf of Riello UPS Ltd, general manager, Leo Craig said, “We are extremely proud to be awarded this accolade of Data Centre Energy Efficiency Project of the Year, judged by our peers in the data centre industry.
The UPS market is evolving rapidly and we worked hard with our resellers, Pure Power Systems to deliver the best-in-class technology to ensure Riello’s Master High Efficiency (HE) made a significant contribution to the energy efficiency levels in the data centre.
“A huge congratulations to all of the other winners on the evening which was truly enjoyed by all.”
About the project:
Building on a legacy data centre
Early in 2014, eircom issued a tender to build a new data centre at an existing site on brownfield land in Blanchardstown. The site was already home to the company’s telephone exchange, television service and a legacy data centre - the new data centre was to be developed within old office space at this site. As a core site for eircom, the location offered the best fibre connectivity to ensure that the data centre would operate at high speeds whilst maintaining high levels of resiliency and reliability.
Ian Jackson, managing director of Pure Power, which has been exclusively selling Riello UPS in Ireland since 2004, said: “The UPS specification we were working to was a 1200kVA N+1 system configured as a 2N arrangement therefore there were a total of 8 x 400kVA standalone systems. The three major driving factors in this €575k project were to ensure resilience, efficiency and maintainability, whilst we had a very small footprint to work with in respect to room layout of both UPS & Battery. Our comprehensive solution ensured this highly critical environment had the required level of availability and redundancy.”
Pure Power selected the Riello Master High Efficiency (HE), a product known for its premium protection, power quality and green energy.
The project included:
- Eight Riello Master HE standalone units at 400kVA
- Configured in a 2N system (four UPS’ on each side)
- Five strings of batteries per UPS (210 batteries per UPS)
- Total batteries is 1680
Pure Power delivered, positioned and commissioned the UPS systems as well as liaising with switchgear and control companies whose equipment would be interfacing with the UPS systems. They also built an ultra-resilient battery system with each UPS having five strings of batteries in order to achieve the desired autonomy as well as offer another level of redundancy. One of the major challenges on the project was transporting ad installing 60 tonnes of batteries into the data centre by hand. “Our staff worked incredibly hard to ensure the project was completed in time and to the highest standard.”
Pure Power has a strong relationship with Riello UPS as its single Irish distributor of UPS products and services. Speaking about this, Ian said: “We have built our brand on the back of the Riello product and we place a particular emphasis on the service capabilities of our skilled engineers. We learn from the best and Riello pride themselves in offering top class training to ensure resellers have a thorough understanding of the products and exactly how to run and maintain them properly".
“The Riello systems are very well designed with a user friendly parallel hardware/control system. This makes the difficult job of commissioning the UPS somewhat easier as we can trust this tested design when doing our on-site testing. We also had to carry out stringent load acceptance tests through a set of detailed load bank autonomy procedures to verify the UPS’ and Battery were capable of supporting the load for the specified time of 20 minutes,” Ian continued.
Engineers of Riello reseller companies are invited to carry out training on the commissioning, maintenance and servicing of Riello UPS. Once the engineer has completed and passed the Certified Engineers training programme, they are allocated an Engineers ID card which has a unique reference number which customers can verify via a dedicated website www.riello-engineer.co.uk.
