The NYSE switched over to its backup power generator Monday night when Consolidated Edison Inc.
Across the state 91 healthcare facilities, including 29 hospitals, lost street power and are operating on backup power.
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The industry has largely won, for example, fighting back regulations that would have required backup power at cell towers.
Voltaic is also launching today the V39 USB Battery, which provides backup power for iPads, other tablets and smartphones.
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Gas stations are now required to have backup power, but the state stockpile will provide a cheaper way to do it.
Circuit boards are double-insulated to protect against power surges, and there are backup power supplies that can be switched out on the fly.
Meanwhile, crews restored backup power, but problems keeping the reactors cool forced plant officials to take the drastic step of flooding them with seawater.
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Consumers and businesses who have solar panels on their rooftops might want batteries to provide backup power or to sell excess electricity to utilities.
In addition, the city's density poses extraordinary challenges for readying cell sites with backup power and then getting them back online when outages happen.
It can also be connected to an external 5-volt Lithium-ion polymer battery for backup power, enabling use in areas where electricity can be inconsistent.
Telecom firms said they spent days preparing for Hurricane Sandy by activating regional coordination centers, testing equipment and positioning fuel for backup power generators.
In addition to repairs, workers will increase the number of systems and services that the Triumph and other Carnival ships can run on backup power.
Since John is still doing his laundry during peak load hours, the utility is paying top dollar in infrastructure costs and high-cost backup power plants.
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The report calls for requiring nursing homes and adult-care facilities to have evacuation plans and backup power sources and asks for stricter enforcement of standards for utility companies.
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One candidate is providing backup power for the electric grid.
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That included making sure the Hackensack branch could serve as a backup home base in the event that both the primary and backup power at the main office went down.
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While enduring an epic flight delay at a New York City airport yesterday, I read a short commentary by the Pulitzer-prize winning author Anna Quindlen about the benefits of backup power generators.
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Plenty of companies are grappling with the aftermath of the storm, including Knight Capital, a trading firm that had to direct clients to reroute orders after its backup power system went down Wednesday.
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Each of those generators is the size of a bus, so it's unrealistic to think that the ship could have enough backup power on board to run services when the engines die, Herring added.
ReliOn, a fuel-cell manufacturer based in Spokane, WA and focused on emergency-generation applications, reported that one of its customers hit by Hurricane Irene had 56 cell towers with fuel cells installed for backup power.
Shares of the generator manufacturer rocketed 21% higher, a reflection of the massive power outages caused by the recent storm and expectations that Sandy may drive more consumers and businesses to secure backup power sources.
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But the report also suggests some on-the-ground steps, including getting more mobile fuel facilities, deploying city staffers faster to work with community groups on relief operations and working with companies to extend cellphone towers' backup power.
The two principal reasons were that generators used for backup power cannot run when underwater, and many of the wired lines carrying signals from the towers to the networks were knocked out by wind and trees.
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Verizon Wireless prides itself on having at least eight hours of backup power at all its cell towers, and spokesman Tom Pica said technicians were busy making sure the generators that kick in once batteries are depleted had fuel.
Phone service from cable companies is also dependent on power, but most companies supply backup batteries to power the phones for some hours in an outage.
Comparing backup and primary power solutions is like comparing rotary phones and smart phones.
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The reserve power category includes backup batteries and related products that provide a continuous supply of direct current (DC) during power outages.
Verizon's "FiOS" fiber-optic landline service is also dependent on power and backup batteries.
Backup generators fill the power gap, but the Japan Data Center Council recently warned that reliance on generators is causing a diesel fuel shortage.
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