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Communication service providers (CSPs) are exploring the use of energy storage systems currently dedicated to providing backup power as a potential source of energy cost efficiency through a process known as peak shaving. Peak shaving calls for service providers and other businesses to switch to stored energy to power their equipment and operations during portions of the day when electricity rates are at their highest and then recharge the energy storage mediums when rates are at their lowest.

Peak shaving and other energy arbitrage operations have largely been unavailable to CSPs due to their heavy reliance on lead-acid batteries, a dated and inefficient storage technology with limited discharge-charge cycles that largely restrict usage to standby power operations.

Unlike other energy storage solutions, Areca Hybrid Supercapacitor Modules can ramp up quickly to respond to sudden spikes in electricity demand. That attribute makes them well suited to take advantage of ongoing price changes in the real-time energy markets as electricity demand fluctuates throughout the day, week, month or season.

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• Why the unique composition of hybrid supercapacitors enables MSOs and other CSPs to respond instantly to real-time grid price fluctuations
• How hybrid supercapacitors can eliminate expenses related to risk-mitigation requirements
• How Areca hybrid supercapacitors are assisting CSPs in realizing several thousand dollars per site in energy cost savings

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