GE launches New Business : Critical Power Business for more efficient Energy Management.

GE launches New Business : Critical Power Business for more efficient Energy Management.

GE launches New Business : Critical Power Business for more efficient Energy Management.
GE has Unveiled  a new Business Unit in New York last week, for managing the demands of Power for the Mission Critical Industries like Healthcare, Telecommunications, Financial Institutions, Datacenteres etc.
As the Mission Critical services are increasing, so is the demand for the reliability and efficient power services to these services. This new business will provide  data centers, hospitals, telecommunication networks and other mission-critical facilities with end-to-end solutions to keep electricity flowing to crucial equipment during power disturbances and outages.
The main aim of this new Business Unit will be to provide solutions to customer, which can reduce their energy consumption, and minimize the OPEX associated with supplying power to their Mission Critical Applications.
For eg. for Data Centers , GE's Energy Star Rated eboost equipped UPS can increase efficiency, reduce consumtion and cost, and increasing saving over a time.
More information can be found at http://www.genewscenter.com/Press-Releases/GE-Launches-Critical-Power-Business-to-Support-Power-Needs-of-the-Global-Mission-Critical-Industry-3e6e.aspx

FREE CRITICAL POWER
Ge is terming it as Free critical power, as they would be financing it through GE capital, and the saving from the usage of GE UPS new feature like eboost will result into change of Capex to Opex, and good saving to companies.
http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/focus/archive/2013/03/ge-honing-data-center-market-blade&u=4888
There will be a synergistic relationship between GE Critical Power and the company's finance side, however, and it has to do with a clever way to upgrade customers who already have GE UPS systems with newer ones. The newer UPS products feature a technology called eBoost, which decides whether to run the UPS in the double-conversion mode or to put it in bypass mode. The bypass mode offers operational-expense (OpEx) savings, since no power is wasted on conversion from AC to DC and back to AC. Most customers today have robust OpEx budgets but no capital-expense (CapEx) budgets to speak of, which makes it difficult to buy expensive new gear like UPS systems. GE Capital will finance the new equipment and lease it to the customer, turning CapEx into OpEx. This way, the customer can use energy-cost savings they get from having a more efficient UPS system to cover most of the lease expense.
“We like to say it's free critical power,” Schnitzer says. “It's very easy for them, because savings on the monthly basis will almost pay for the leasing of the technology.”