Metro Energy Solutions Announces Installation of 300 KVA Uninterruptible Power Supply System Project with Ricoh Corporation

West Caldwell, NJ - August, 2003 – Metro Energy Solutions announced today it has completed the installation of a new 300 KVA Uninterruptible Power System (UPS) for Ricoh Corporation, headquartered in West Caldwell, New Jersey. The new UPS was designed to protect Ricoh’s Data Center, which is located in the company’s United States headquarters facility, and it replaced an old 150 KVA UPS that had become outdated. The new UPS was designed with four custom battery cabinets that provide over 90 minutes of battery time in the event of a loss of power.

Ricoh Corporation hired Metro Energy Solutions to design and install a new UPS that would provide superior battery life and have the ability to protect many additional pieces of equipment than the old UPS, which had become outdated. In addition, Metro Energy Solutions was required to perform the removal of the old system, and the installation of the new system in a very short amount of time, since any loss of power to Ricoh’s U.S. headquarters forces the company to lose phone service and internet access, including the ability to keep its website up. To help provide insurance against a loss of power during the installation, Metro Energy Solutions brought in a 400 kW temporary generator to provide back-up power.

"Metro Energy did a fantastic job of preparing for this project, which enabled them to condense the amount of time we needed to shut our Data Center down,” stated Joe Vallorosi, Vice President of IT for Ricoh. “We originally planned to be without power for 2 full weekends, which our IT people were not happy about, but reluctantly agreed to. Once Metro Energy realized the type of problems that presented for us, they came up with a strategy that allowed them to disconnect the old UPS and have the new UPS up and running in only one weekend. It wasn’t easy, but everything worked out great.”“This was a team effort in the truest sense,” stated Robert Ragozine, COO of Metro Energy Solutions. “As always, we worked very closely with Ricoh’s people, particularly the facilities and IT departments, to make this happen. We are very proud of this project because it was performed under some unique circumstances, and it was extremely critical to Ricoh, which made it extremely critical to us.”