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E-GUIDE

Powering the future: energy storage pathways to net zero in the industrial and utilities sectors

This e-Guide explores how pure lead batteries promote sustainability through high efficiency, low maintenance, and full recyclability, helping industries cut costs, boost efficiency, and support net-zero goals.

E-GUIDE

The Evolution of Smart Batteries for the Industrial and Utilities Sectors

Industrial and utility sectors have many backup power options. This e-Guide shows how refined lead-acid batteries like VLA and VRLA offer proven, scalable performance—often matching or exceeding newer alternatives.

E-GUIDE

Maximizing uptime and lowering maintenance costs in utility and industrial plants

TPPL batteries offer reliable backup power for utilities and industry. This e-Guide covers key benefits and best-practice approach to implementing such solutions to maximize availability and lower through-life costs.

Case Study

Harnessing the power of EnerSys® DataSafe® XE batteries

As data demand surges, a leading Italian data center partnered with EnerSys® to boost efficiency, cut carbon footprint, and unlock sustainable backup power with innovative TPPL battery technology.

Opinion Article

Data Centers in 2025: 5 Key Trends Shaping the Industry

Data centers in 2025 are set to undergo rapid growth, as well as fundamental changes. As the data center industry faces unprecedented demands and challenges, innovation isn’t just a goal—it’s a necessity.

Reference Guide

Data Centers Quick Reference Guide

Consistent, constant power is mission critical for data centers, but your UPS system is only as good as the batteries that sustain it. We offer scalable high-energy density storage options, cabinets and racks to support your essential infrastructure.

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Tried and tested energy storage for industrial and utilities sectors

From pharmaceutical, petrochemical, and food and beverage facilities to water treatment plants and electricity sub-stations, batteries are vital for power provision across the industrial and utilities sectors worldwide.

Reference Guide

Industrial & Utilities Quick Reference Guide

From initiation to end-of-life, EnerSys® delivers global support for your backup power needs. With racks, cabinets, accessories and our full range of battery chemistries, we are ideally positioned to help you maximize availability and lower through-life costs.

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The Benefits and Challenges of Deploying 5G Small Cells on the HFC Strand Network

Cable operators are deploying small cell radios through their existing HFC network infrastructure to offload data and associated costs of offering mobility services through a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) arrangement. Attaching small cell radios to the existing HFC network enables rapid deployment at a fraction of the cost and time as traditional deployment methods.

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Implementing Nanogrid into the Critical Facility

Operators are looking at introducing nanogrid architectures into critical facilities to maintain reliability in the face of increased thermal loading and to eliminate points of failure. Nanogrid architectures will further enable the use of distributed energy resources (DERs) such as wind or solar to supplement utility power, allowing operators to realize additional cost benefits by avoiding peak usage utility rates or selling power back to the grid.

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Focusing Stored Energy Where It Matters Most

We have charted a course to meet future bandwidth needs with the 10G initiative, and new mobility offerings are leveraging the HFC network to ensure connectivity while on the go. With all of this, it has never been more important to have reliable power to keep the network up and running.

Industry Article

Powering PON with conventional cable broadband equipment

Billions of dollars of public funding are being allocated to expand high speed broadband connectivity into unserved or underserved parts of the rural US and Canada. One of the most common methods for expanding the network is through passive optical networks (PON). PON remote optical line terminals (R-OLTs) – located in remote service areas – distribute fiber connections for homes and businesses.

Case Study

Ensuring Power Continuity for KEK

The battery room replacement and overhaul project at the Kosovo Energy Corporation (KEK) stands as a testament to the pursuit of power infrastructure excellence. In this initiative, EnerSys®, in collaboration with EXBATT, successfully implemented their state-of-the-art PowerSafe® SBS XL 2 Volt batteries, revolutionizing KEK’s power capabilities.

Whitepaper

Advanced Communication Energy

Advanced Connected Energy is a technique which embeds a low energy communication device into a lead-acid battery to communicate via Bluetooth® Low Energy to a smartphone app, SDK, or controller. The chip provides real-time access to performance when the battery is in service as well as charge status while the battery is stored in a warehouse.

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Understanding Fault Managed Power

In 2020, operators, manufacturers, and industry standards bodies began to investigate the potential for a new distributed power technique that could deliver more power in a safe environment for technicians and the public. A new distributed powering technique called fault managed power was developed imposing no power limit under normal operation, but precisely limit energy transferred under a fault condition to mitigate shock and fire hazard.

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Keeping the lights on

Next-generation PON implementations will likely include high speed coherent optic links from headends to new OSP aggregation nodes, enabling even faster services to extend deeper into the network. Each active optical component in our PON architecture requires reliable, uninterrupted power to keep the network running.

Article

Prospective Stable Grid Float Use Cases

Having sufficient battery power back-up in non-cyclic stable grid float applications is essential across a diverse array of different application scenarios.

Article

Ensuring HFC Network Resiliency During Extended Utility Outages

This paper explores various extended run time solutions using both Lithium Ion (Li-ion) and Thin Plate Pure Lead (TPPL) batteries.

Article

Evolution in Battery Energy Densities

For decades stable grid energy storage applications have often been addressed by using either Valve-Regulated Lead-Acid (VRLA) gel tubular OPzV or flooded OPzS batteries. In a modern context, however, the drawbacks of OPzV and particularly OPzS technologies are becoming increasingly clear - and the time has now come for implementing changes

Article

Addressing the Energy Capacity Shortfall

In an increasing majority of standby float (stable grid) applications, there are expectations to ramp up energy storage capacities. In existing battery deployments, this must be done without extra space needing to be assigned for accommodating racking, etc. Across the board, higher density battery solutions are being called for.

Opinion

Achieving Greater Energy Autonomy at Data Center Sites

With many data center operators trying to attain carbon neutrality, they need to explore more sustainable ways of keeping up with their ever-increasing energy demands.

Opinion

Using Data Center Resources to Support Grid Stability and Peak Shaving

There is considerable potential for data centers to employ their UPS battery assets in a grid support context to reduce running costs.

Opinion

The Benefits of Running Your Data Center Operation with Reduced Cooling

TPPL batteries are an attractive option for data center operators looking to run their systems at heightened temperatures and reduce their costs.

Article

Selecting Batteries That Support Data Centers’ Environmental Goals

There are growing concerns about the data center sector's effect on the environment. Operators must prioritize this when specifying UPS batteries.

Article

The Role of Data Centers in Maintaining Grid Stability

Greater importance is being put on renewable alternatives and changing the emphasis in the power distribution network.

Article

Maximizing Battery Circularity

Batteries have a vital part to play in the continued running of data centers, when they come to their end-of-use, efforts must be made to dispose of them in the correct manner.

White Paper

The Next Era For Standby Float

The demands of customers involved in standby float (often referred to as stable grid) applications are ramping up dramatically. Here a float charge is used to constantly maintain the batteries in a full state of charge (SoC) condition – so that they are ready to respond to any interruptions in the mains supply, should that occur, and the connected load can still be supported. In the past, it was mainly the lifespan of batteries that mattered for such applications. Now, expectations are being raised in relation to other properties.

Article

Extended Runtime: How Will It Affect Your Network Infrastructure

The cable broadband network has evolved from being a vehicle for the provision of entertainment services to become a strategic element of the country’s infrastructure, providing broadband internet access to both homes and businesses. Without appropriate backup measures in place, however, network availability is only as good as the utility grid that powers it.

Article

Getting the Most Out of Your Batteries

As expectations on network runtimes grow, and while utility outages become more frequent, multiple-system operators (MSOs) should review their deployed battery backup solutions. The challenge facing network operations is how to safely and cost-effectively increase energy densities across the hybrid fiber-coax (HFC) network.

Article

Extreme Weather—Is Your Network Vulnerable?

Pressure is consequently growing on multiple-system operators (MSOs) to solidify their distributed hybrid fiber-coax (HFC) networks against more significant power outages by extending runtimes. While longer runtimes at any HFC network site can be achieved by adding generators, batteries, or both, it is not always that simple

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Pioneering Power Solutions for Space Flight Missions

Since building the first Li-ion battery to power a satellite, the ABSL™ team developed technological breakthroughs that have extended satellite and mission lifecycles. As the space industry’s leading supplier of Li-ion batteries, ABSL has delivered on hundreds of projects and programs.

Case Study

Powersports Aftermarket Distributor Slashes Battery Operating Costs and Ends Change-outs with Thin Plate Pure Lead (TPPL) Technology

Powersports aftermarket distributor slashes battery operating costs and ends change-outs with Thin Plate Pure Lead (TPPL) technology

Case Study

Supermarket Chain Boosts Productivity while Cutting Maintenance and Costs with Thin Plate Pure Lead (TPPL) Technology

Supermarket chain boosts productivity while cutting battery maintenance and costs with Thin Plate Pure Lead (TPPL) technology

Case Study

Global furniture maker goes with NexSys® TPPL Thin Plate Pure Lead (TPPL) technology for its new manufacturing site

Case Study

Mining industry manufacturer switches from flooded lead acid batteries to NexSys® TPPL batteries

Mining industry manufacturer switches from flooded lead acid batteries to NexSys® TPPL Thin Plate Pure Lead (TPPL) technology

Whitepaper

Can Battery Technology address the Changing Data Center Landscape?

As society’s hunger for information rises, data centers need to respond. They need to source reliable UPS batteries that can cope with increasingly heavy strains.

Technical Article

Overcoming Power Grid Instability in Data Centers

Power grid instability is a serious threat to data center online time. Data centers need reliable UPS backup power complemented with high-performance battery technology.

Technical Article

UPS Battery: Backbone of the Modern Data Center

Data center operators need access to reliable battery technologies to support their UPS. TPPL batteries deliver benefits that help data center operators meet their challenges.

Technical Article

Does your UPS battery meet data center demands?

UPS systems guard against power failure in the data center. TPPL batteries can cope with larger peak currents and offer advantages that help reduce TCO.

Case Study

Sugar Refinery Cuts Costs and Boots Productivity by Replacing Gel Lead Acid Batteries with NexSys® TPPL Thin Plate Pure Lead (TPPL) Technology

Case Study

University Boosts Battery Life in its Floor Care Equipment with Thin Plate Pure Lead (TPPL) Technology

Case Study

Food and Beverage distributor selects NexSys® TPPL Thin Plate Pure Lead (TPPL) Technology to Power Lift Truck Fleet

Case Study

Moving a Lift Truck Fleet from Flooded Lead Acid Batteries to NexSys® TPPL Thin Plate Pure Lead (TPPL) Technology

Case Study

Aftermarket Manufacturer Slashes Battery Maintenance Costs with NexSys® TPPL Batteries

Automotive and RV aftermarket manufacturer slashes battery maintenance costs with NexSys® TPPL Thin Plate Pure Lead (TPPL) technology

Whitepaper

Leveraging HFC infrastructure to deploy 5G

5G has molded its way to the top of popular consciousness, with promises of lightning-fast, low-latency connectivity and ubiquitous coverage. While improving user experiences, 5G will open doors to new worlds of connectivity.

Whitepaper

The 5G Power Architecture

How much power does 5G equipment consume? How much energy storage is needed? 5G deployment create new requirements for power conversion and energy storage. The new solutions require higher efficiency, more energy density, next generation distributed power, and new system configurations to meet the changing 5G landscape.

Industry Article

Southwest Airlines Goes Electric

In 2015, Southwest Airlines® began powering 70 new electric baggage tractors with NexSys® TPPL Thin Plate Pure Lead (TPPL) batteries at Chicago’s Midway International Airport. The carrier had just started using them in its baggage tractors station-wide, after a multi-city trial demonstrated that the TPPL batteries would eliminate the watering maintenance and acid spills associated with flooded lead acid batteries.

Case Study

New Battery Technology Helps Keep Greenhouse Production Moving

Industry Article

NexSys® TPPL cut burden carrier requirements in half

As part of an efficiency improvement program for its regional distribution center, a premium automotive manufacturer worked with EnerSys® to convert the facility’s burden carrier fleet from conventional flooded lead acid batteries to a more efficient motive power solution – one that would cut downtime for charging and help reduce the size of the fleet.

Case Study

NexSys® battery and charger system on track to exceed lifecycle expectations

NexSys® batteries feature proprietary Thin Plate Pure Lead (TPPL) technology, which makes them energy-dense, virtually maintenance-free and ideal for opportunity and fast charging.

Case Study

Keeping Team Sledd on the Move – With NexSys® Batteries by EnerSys®

The NexSys range of motive power batteries offer fast charging and virtually maintenance-free capabilities that deliver significant operational benefits and lifetime cost savings.

Industry Article

NexSys® TPPL batteries and American Airlines Burden Carriers

In 1996, American Airlines® began converting its Ground Support Equipment (GSE) from internal combustion vehicles to electric vehicles to cut expenses and emissions. Today, American’s commitment to going electric includes experimentation with advanced battery technologies that can deliver better financial and environmental benefits than conventional flooded lead acid batteries.

Case Study

NexSys® Batteries Provide a Perfect Fit

After winning an extremely aggressive sales order in the summer of 2015, a Tier 1 truck body manufacturer needed to build the best production plant in North America and get it moving ASAP.

Technical Article

TPPL Technology-Past and Future

Thin Plate Pure Lead (TPPL) is a well-established battery technology that is employed in a wide array of different application scenarios. Among the many industry sectors that benefit from it are data centres, telecommunication, transportation, materials handling and logistics.

Case Study

EnerSys helps power Parker Solar Probe

The Parker Solar Probe spacecraft will travel at 125 miles per second as it flies through the sun’s atmosphere as close as 3.8 million miles to our star’s surface. As it withstands temperatures of up to 2,500°F, the probe will capture detailed measurements of the sun from space.

Case Study

Medical Case Study Heart Pumping Strength

Patients with Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) experience a weaker than normal heart strength. Implantable devices deliver electrical pulses to the heart to reduce compromising symptoms of CHF.

Case Study

Medical Case Study Neuromodulation

Neuromodulation can be the most effective way to alleviate the symptoms of chronic pain and significantly improve the patient’s quality of life. Quallion batteries have been used to power devices that provide relief and comfort.

Case Study

Utilizing TPPL Advance Technology for Commercial Site Energy Storage

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Utilizing TPPL Advance Technology for Commercial Site Energy Storage

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Utilizing TPPL Advance Technology for Substation Support

Technical Article

THE EVOLVING DATA CENTER LANDSCAPE

Data centres today experience a rising incidence of power outages and grid fluctuations caused by increased urbanisation and demand. Meanwhile, their workload is expanding, with a move to multi-user hosting services and larger data storage capacity requirements.

Reference Guide

Quick Reference Guide

EnerSys, the global leader in stored energy solutions for industrial applications, manufactures and distributes reserve power and motive power batteries, battery chargers, power equipment, battery accessories and outdoor equipment enclosure solutions to customers worldwide.

Case Study

Atlanta Police Department

As the largest law enforcement agency in Georgia, the Atlanta Police Department describes themselves as community-oriented with a focus on collaborative problem-solving strategies. The department has recently expanded to over 2,000 police officers covering the city’s 134 square mile area.

Case Study

City of Detroit

Approaching 700,000 people, Detroit is the most populated city in Michigan. In fact, in the top 50 most populated cities in the country, Detroit ranks at #21.

Case Study

City of Tampa

The Alpha Strand-Mount Gateway (SMG) enables you to access clean, reliable, redundant electrical power and high speed broadband to deploy small cell radios up to 100 meters away from the AlphaGateway SMG.

Case Study

Next Generation Battery Backup Systems

Battery Backup Systems (BBS) are the foremost line of defense for keeping intersections safe during power outages.

Case Study

Altricia Sea Trials

See how to reduce fuel costs and achieve zero emissions with advanced EnerSys® AGM²™ battery technology for all your hybrid marine power needs.

Case Study

Daimler reduces battery failure to virtually zero with ACE®

Daimler required a battery with higher reserve capacities, higher cranking power and longer life with greater reliability and reduced maintenance costs to meet today’s evolving driver demands.

Whitepaper

DATASAFE® XE BATTERIES: BUILT FOR CRITICAL UPS SYSTEMS

This whitepaper reveals how batteries based on proven Thin Plate Pure Lead (TPPL) technology have been developed to meet significant changes in the UPS market.

Technical Article

10 Key Factors When Choosing A Data Center UPS Battery

The two mainstream UPS battery technologies are lead-acid and lithium-ion (Li-ion). This article introduces the strengths and challenges of each to data center operators.

Whitepaper

Passive Optical Lan

POL is a derivative of the Passive Optical Networks (PONs) used in the successful Fiber-to-the-Home architectures that are deployed by Telecommunications Service Providers.

Industry Article

Small Cells; no power, no problem

Outdoor small cells complement the macro cell network by providing pinpoint coverage in urban locales, additional capacity to offload the macro (densification), and economical solutions for rural areas. They are becoming a vital part of the wireless network and an essential component to successful deployment of 5G.

Whitepaper

Planning and Engineering Guidelines for Remote Line Power

The trend toward distributed networks has led to the increased use of Remote Line Power (RLP) as an alternative means of energizing the remote devices.

Whitepaper

Powering IDAS Networks

The advent of Indoor Distributed Antenna System (IDAS) networks has greatly increased the capacity and reach of wireless service in public venues such as sports stadiums, convention centers and hotels.

Whitepaper

The Benefits of Intelligent Monitoring in the Modern Central Office

In this era of ubiquitous communications and data analytics, the addition of intelligent monitoring and control to the power network is a long overdue development.

Industry Article

Small Cells Unplugged

From ISE magazine to the Wall Street Journal, small cells are the headline-grabbing technology that is transforming wireless networks. Outdoor small cells are used to provide network densification, which means adding more cell sites to increase network capacity, as well as coverage in areas not reached effectively by macro cells.

Whitepaper

A new UPS Bypass Architecture

While most equipment has continuously evolved, a critical component – the maintenance bypass – remains unchanged even though it is a single point of failure and, in practice, a significant factor in system reliability.

Whitepaper

The Power of Loop Reduction

Deploying the DSLAM deep into the network reduces the amount of copper between the DSLAM and the end users. Programs like these that shorten, or reduce, the copper loop in order to boost bandwidth delivery have come to be called Loop Reduction programs.