Power Protection FEATURED ARTICLE

While many people on the East Coast are still digging themselves out from the snow that was dumped by the blizzard that visited the region last weekend, for about 1,000 power customers, it could have been a lot worse, according to the Talk of the Sound.

Power company Con Edison said that while 4,500 customers lost power during the storm, preparations made well in advance allowed more than 1,000 customers in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens to keep their power.

The company had installed smart switches that allowed parts of the grid to stay up when the howling winds sent trees crashing onto the power lines.

The power staying up not only allowed people to watch TV, surf the Internet and sip hot cocoa while the storm raged outside, it also likely saved a lot of lives. A lot of home medical equipment requires electricity to function.

The peak of power outages was around midday last Saturday with over 1,000 customers reporting outages due to the blizzard’s snow and high winds.

Con Edison had begun upgrading its grid after Hurricane Sandy hit and has plans to continue upgrading through this year.

As the powerful winter storm has shown, no place is immune to severe weather. While power companies like Con Edison do their best, it’s increasingly likely that nature will cause businesses to lose power due to global warming.

Minuteman offers an array of products ranging from simple surge protectors to sophisticated UPS systems for data centers to help businesses protect their data no matter what the weather throws at them, from blizzards to hurricanes to ordinary summer thunderstorms.

These solutions let customers keep their data and they won’t have to hope that their power company has installed a smart switch in time for the next big storm to hit.