Breadcrumb Home MV-UPS: Medium Voltage Uninterruptible Power Supply The medium-voltage power stability platform designed to accelerate site deployment, shield your AI workloads with total load immunity, and decouple mission-critical operations from grid volatility. Total Power Stability, Any Architecture AI compute requires mastering the dynamic range between grid-side volatility and load-side demand. The MV-UPS platform acts as an intelligent shield, decoupling your infrastructure from external disturbances while preventing rapid load swings from impacting the grid. This delivers total load immunity—ensuring a constant, high-quality power stream, whether the grid is stable, transitioning, or absent entirely. The New Foundation for AI Stability Description AI-scale data centers face a dual crisis: power demand is outpacing grid reinforcement, and highly dynamic AI workloads are creating rapid, sub-second power swings. This volatility stresses aging infrastructure and triggers stringent grid-code requirements. In an era where power availability is the ultimate constraint on growth, facilities are increasingly exposed to curtailment, regulatory penalties, and costly unplanned downtime.The MV-UPS acts as a high-speed, intelligent buffer that stabilizes your facility's power quality at the medium-voltage level. Whether operating as a grid-connected interface, an autonomous microgrid, or a bridging power solution, the system creates a stable, private grid for your facility. This architectural innovation serves as the foundation for total load immunity, delivering the following strategic outcomes across any power configuration: Power Decoupling Achieve 100% decoupling between utility grid dynamics and mission-critical loads. By operating at the medium-voltage level, the system eliminates step-down losses typical of traditional low-voltage configurations and shields AI and data center workloads from grid-side transients, voltage dips, and frequency fluctuations. Seamless Bridging & Islanded Capability Ensure continuous operation regardless of grid status. The MV-UPS functions as an intelligent bridge between grid-connected and autonomous modes, providing the grid-forming capabilities required to stabilize facilities during microgrid or islanded operations. Enhanced Grid Compliance & Stability Optimize utility interaction through precise, high-speed power regulation. The system provides full reactive power control and fault ride-through protection, ensuring facilities meet strict connection requirements while maximizing power quality for internal processes. Monetizable Energy Asset Management Transform power architecture from a cost center into a strategic asset. By leveraging integrated energy storage, the MV-UPS enables revenue-generating ancillary services—including peak shaving, load shifting, and demand response—to optimize total cost of ownership and support long-term decarbonization goals. MV-UPS Solution 1 Grid and infrastructure protection 2 Streamlined CAPEX and OPEX 3 Simplified architecture 4 Superior control bandwidth 5 Market monetization Grid and infrastructure protection Shields expensive equipment – such as gas turbines – from the extreme torsional stress of "violent" AI-driven load swings Streamlined CAPEX and OPEX Its comprehensive architecture can eliminate the need for secondary, low-voltage Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and traditional LV UPS systems, reducing total installation and maintenance costs. Simplified architecture Minimizes power distribution complexity, resulting in smaller busbars, reduced breaker requirements, and lower transformer ratings. Superior control bandwidth Offers industry-leading response times to fast ramp rates, ensuring that sensitive IT hardware is never exposed to voltage transients. Market monetization Unlocks the ability to participate in ancillary services markets, turning your energy storage into a revenue-generating asset. Learn more about MV-UPS How does the MV-UPS compare to traditional BESS shunt-connected systems? Traditional BESS shunt systems cannot provide 100% decoupling because they are connected in parallel with the load. The GE Vernova MV-UPS is a series-connected solution that provides total isolation between grid and load dynamics. This means that if a fault occurs on the grid side, your critical loads are completely shielded by the DC bus, a level of protection shunt systems physically cannot guarantee. Will the MV-UPS footprint actually save me space on my site? Yes, by integrating medium-voltage conversion and energy storage, the system removes the need for large, redundant low-voltage UPS systems and their associated switchgear. This significantly simplifies the downstream electrical distribution, allowing you to reclaim valuable square footage that would otherwise be dedicated to LV equipment. In high-density AI data centers, this footprint recovery directly translates to more rack space and higher revenue-generating capacity. How early in my project planning do I need to decide on the MV-UPS? It is critical to integrate the MV-UPS concept during the "Concept and Planning" (Phase 1) stage. Because the system handles medium voltage directly, it replaces large portions of the conventional electrical distribution architecture. If you wait until later stages to decide, you may find that the physical footprint or infrastructure requirements for the MV-UPS were not accounted for, making retrofitting difficult or impossible. Does this system truly protect my gas turbine equipment from AI load swings? AI-driven workloads create "violent" load swings (20% to 80% of multi-hundred MW) that can cause significant torsional stress on turbines. Unlike standard systems that pass some of this stress through to the generator, the MV-UPS absorbs these rapid fluctuations entirely. By providing a stable, grid-forming output, the MV-UPS ensures the turbine sees a controlled, predictable load, preventing accelerated wear and potential failure. Featured Resources MV-UPS | Medium Voltage Uninterruptible Power Supply The MV-UPS is a medium-voltage uninterruptible power supply with integrated battery storage that decouples AI data centers from grid instability, ensuring reliable, high-quality power while optimizing infrastructure costs and enabling grid compliance Download Brochure 2 / 1
