A New Approach to Power Reliability Index for Enterprise-Level Power Grid

该CRD项目旨在开发一种改进企业电力系统的新方法。电力系统的可靠性问题在企事业单位中得到了前所未有的重视。例如，随着互联网应用的迅速扩展，几乎所有互联网数据中心都需要找到有效的解决方案来提高可靠性，因为停电或内部设备故障造成的服务中断对数据中心来说是灾难性的。即使是最小的电源中断也可能导致设备故障、数据损坏或数据丢失。对于医院来说，停电可能导致生命损失。企业级电源可靠性的重要性怎么强调都不过分。这个CRD项目的成功将通过提高我们在有效使用企业电力系统方面的知识，对加拿大工业产生积极的社会经济影响。

This CRD project is aimed at developing a new approach for improving enterprise electric power systems. The reliability of electric power systems for enterprises and institutes has taken an unprecedented importance. For example, with the fast expansion of Internet applications, virtually all Internet data centres need to find effective solutions to enhance reliability, since service interruptions caused by a power outage or internal equipment failure are catastrophic for data centres. Even the smallest power interruption can cause equipment failure, data corruption or data loss. For hospitals, power outages may result in losses of life. The importance of power reliability at the enterprise-level cannot be over-emphasized. The success of this CRD project will create a positive social-economic impact on Canadian industry by advancing our knowledge in the effective use of enterprise power systems.