A recent rolling blackout in the greater San Francisco Bay Area caused an estimated $75 million in losses in the Silicon Valley.    --SiliconValley Manufacturing Group

According to Larry Owens of Silicon Valley Power, a blackout costs Sun Microsystems "up to $1 million per minute."  --www.nrel.gov

Network DOWNTIME costs:

• $50,000 per hour when one megabyte of data needs to be restored or recreated
• $18,000 an hour for a PC network
• $90,000 for the transporation industry
• $6.5 million for large brokerage houses

"Demand for power has been growing at an average of 2% a year during the past two years. Looking ahead, the Energy Information Administration forecasts that in 20 years the nation will be using over 45% more electricity than it does today."      --Energy User News

It was the last thing people wanted on a Super Bowl Sunday: the power went out in the middle of the game! Toledo Edison reported that power was lost to about 1,200 customers at 7:30 pm. By 11:00 pm most customers had their power back. Edison wasn't sure why the lights went out.    --WTVG-TV

A stroke patient died when a backup generator powering his breathing maching failed after several storm-related power outages at his nursing home.    --Washington Times

A typical computer system is subjected to more than 125 potentially devastating power disturbances each month.   --Business Week

Every hour of downtime for a typical mid-sized network costs its owner $18,000.    --Business Week

One-third of all data loss is caused by power problems.   --Business Week

Half of all computer problems are traced to the power line.   --Business Week

Poor power quality costs US businesses more than $26 billion each year!