Tag: sustainability
June 20, 2025
Is Your Backup Power Still Stuck in the Past?
George Goncalves Director, Product Line Management Energy Storage Products Let’s face it: today’s communication networks go places they never used to. From mountaintops to underground vaults, providers are working harder than ever to connect remote and rugged locations. But that raises a big question — is your energy storage solution keeping up? If you’re still [...]
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March 11, 2025
Why Depth of Discharge is Critical in Selecting an Energy Storage Solution
By Joe McGarvey, Marketing Director | Various factors impact the cost efficiency, longevity and overall performance of an energy storage solution. One of the most crucial — but often overlooked — energy storage metric is Depth of Discharge (DoD). Understanding DoD, which is essentially a measurement of the percentage of usable energy in a battery [...]
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March 20, 2024
How Areca Hybrid Supercapacitors Can Help Communications Providers Accelerate their Energy Efficiency Goals
By Joe McGarvey, Marketing Director | Nearly all the world’s communications service providers have pledged to improve the energy efficiency of their businesses, setting goals and milestones and then publishing annual reports chronicling the progress they are making toward meeting those efforts. Comcast, for example, unveiled in March of 2023 that it had increased energy [...]
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January 27, 2023
Why it’s Way Past Time (about 2000 Years) to Upgrade Your Backup Power Operations
By Joe McGarvey, Senior Director, Marketing | The battery, that near-ubiquitous energy storage source, has been the primary backup power medium for broadband communications providers for the past several decades. Nearly everything that runs on electricity, in fact, cars, phones, smartwatches — you name it — relies on battery power to keep moving, processing and [...]
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