APC Provides Electrical Efficiency Data on the Web for Its Enterprise Products to Enhance Product Selection Process

Market Wire, June, 2008

APC, a global leader in integrated critical power and cooling services, today announced that individuals now can obtain the electrical efficiency data for enterprise power and cooling products from www.apc.com to help determine energy usage and system efficiencies. APC believes it is the first company in the critical power and cooling services industry to offer full and complete electrical efficiency product data in a standard format. As an industry leader in physical infrastructure, the company now offers product efficiency data including graphs on its products in a consistent format that allows data center designers and others to combine the component efficiencies to predict the performance of an overall system. As of today, APC provides electrical efficiency data for power and cooling products such as its popular three-phase and single-phase uninterruptible power supplies , power distribution units and InRow® cooling solutions on its Web site.

Currently the industry does not generally provide detailed efficiency data over the entire operating range of each product. Today, customers only have access to efficiency data for one or a few operating points or no public data exists at all. As an industry thought leader on designing and building data centers, APC has responded by becoming the first company to provide this precise information to make it easier for customers, integrators and channel partners to select products to meet efficiency (DCiE) objectives for their data center system. Additionally, the company expects that component and systems manufacturers will all eventually provide this information on their respective products.

"APC feels passionately about providing accurate data on the actual electrical efficiency of its products to customers and others to help simplify the process of determining overall system efficiency," said Neil Rasmussen, senior vice president of Innovation at APC. "For example, for devices that transform or process energy, we will provide a graphical representation of the efficiency or loss performance as a function of rated load across the product's operating range."

Initially, APC will publish the electrical efficiency data on the company's U.S.-based Web site. In time, the company will make this information available in other countries where it operates. For more information about APC and its electrical efficiency and power consumption product data, please call 800-877-4080 or visit APC's website at www.apc.com .

About APC

In February 2007, APC and MGE UPS Systems combined to form a $3.5 billion (EUR 2.4 billion) Critical Power & Cooling Services business unit of Schneider Electric. Together, APC and MGE offer the industry's most comprehensive product and solution range for critical IT and process applications in industrial, enterprise, small and medium business and home environments. APC and MGE solutions include uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) , precision cooling units , racks , physical security and design and management software , including APC's InfraStruXure ® architecture the industry's most comprehensive integrated power, cooling, and management solution. Backed by the industry's broadest service organization and an industry leading R&D investment, the combined company's 12,000 employees help customers confront today's unprecedented power, cooling and management challenges. Schneider Electric, with 112,000 employees and operations in 190 countries, had 2007 annual sales of $25 billion (EUR 17.3 billion). For more information on APC and MGE, please visit www.apc-mge.com . All trademarks are the property of their owners.

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For more information contact: Media: Chet Lasell Public Relations-North America 401-789-5735, ext. 2693 clasell@apc.com