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VYCON's Clean Energy Storage System Wins EC&M Magazine's 2009 Product of the Year Award in Power Sources Category
| Source: VYCON
LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - March 30, 2009) - VYCON (http://www.vyconenergy.com), the
designer and manufacturer of environmentally friendly, high-speed energy
storage flywheel systems, today announced that its new VDC and VDC-XE
Direct Connect DC backup systems have been awarded EC&M (www.ecmweb.com)
magazine's Category Winner in the 2009 EC&M Product of the Year
competition. VYCON's innovative flywheels systems are deployed in
mission-critical operations around the world to mitigate costly power
disturbances and provide a greener solution over battery-based
uninterruptible power systems (UPSs).
The EC&M Product of the Year Award showcases the most innovative products
of the past year and recognizes the talent and commitment of the people
involved with every aspect of development, from concept through sales.
EC&M magazine is written for 140,000 electrical professionals, including
more than 84,500 subscribers in electrical contracting firms encompassing
all members of the National Electrical Contractors Association, the
Independent Electrical Contractors organization and Engineering News
Record's top 50 contracting firms. EC&M is one of the nation's leading
publications addressing the estimated $77.8 billion electrical market.
"We are honored to receive this award and to be recognized by EC&M's
judging panel for the innovations our VDC and VDC-XE Direct Connect UPS
brings to users," said VYCON's chief marketing officer, Frank DeLattre.
"The VDC system provides users with a smarter and greener approach to power
protection by eliminating toxic and environmentally unfriendly lead-acid
batteries that are unreliable and require costly cooling to maintain
service life. The acceptance and deployment of our new VDC systems has been
outstanding."
Utilizing VYCON's patented flywheel technology, the VDC unit provides up to
220kW of DC power while the VDC-XE (Xtended Energy) model supplies up to
300kW of DC power within a single cabinet. For longer run times and higher
power capacities, the UL listed VDC models can be easily paralleled without
needing a special communications link. For extended power outages, the VDC
will seamlessly provide enough ride-through protection to transfer to a
standby engine generator for a continuous power system.
Tested and compatible with all major brands of three-phase UPS systems and
available from VYCON's channel partners, Eaton and Chloride, the new VDC
units feature a 20-year life without a major service interval. Featuring
optimized power electronics for significantly improved power density, the
new energy storage systems replace traditional lead-acid backup batteries
used with UPS systems -- providing users with a smarter and greener
approach to power protection.
VYCON's innovative VDC backup systems are energy-saving high-speed
flywheels that provide clean ride-through backup power that is fast,
predictable and seamless. Providing a lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
than traditional battery-reliant UPS systems, data centers, hospitals,
broadcast facilities and other mission critical applications around the
globe are depending on VYCON's innovative flywheel systems to provide
reliable and environmentally friendly on-demand power.
For more information on VYCON's innovating green power solutions, contact
VYCON at 714-386-3800 or visit VYCON's web site at: www.vyconenergy.com.
About VYCON
Headquartered in Orange County, Calif., VYCON is an innovator in the design
and manufacturing of technologically advanced flywheel energy storage
systems that enable a highly reliable, cost-effective and "Green" energy
storage solution for a variety of applications. VYCON's products are
applied in the power quality markets to provide back-up power in mission
critical applications and in the energy re-cycling markets for capturing
and regenerating energy in crane, electric rail and distributed generation
applications.