Modern healthcare facilities require highly reliable UPS systems (uninterruptible power supply) to guarantee continuous operation of critical equipment. Hospitals such as the NHS Bristol Royal Infirmary face complex energy demands, where even a brief interruption can compromise patient safety, surgical procedures, and essential medical services.
The expansion of hospital infrastructure introduced new challenges:
- Ensuring uninterrupted UPS power backup across multiple departments
- Supporting critical systems with long-duration backup power supply
- Providing scalable and redundant unit power supply architectures
- Maintaining stable UPS battery backup performance during extended outages
- Replacing ageing infrastructure with modern, efficient UPS POWER solutions
Healthcare environments require not only reliability, but also flexibility, redundancy, and long autonomy from their UPS battery systems.
To meet these challenges, Phoenix Power Solutions identified the need for:
- Modular and scalable UPS systems capable of adapting to evolving hospital demands
- High-capacity uninterruptible power supply solutions with N+1 redundancy
- Long-lasting UPS battery backup systems ensuring several hours of autonomy
- Distributed UPS power backup across multiple buildings and departments
- Robust maintenance strategies including continuous monitoring and battery testing
The recommendation focused on deploying advanced UPS POWER solutions that ensure maximum resilience while allowing future expansion.
Salicru delivered a comprehensive UPS system architecture tailored to the NHS facilities, ensuring reliable backup power supply across all critical areas.
Bristol Royal Infirmary (NHS)
- 2 × SLC ADAPT 2 (100 kVA, 75 kVA N+1) installed in high-power switch rooms
- Equipped with UPS battery systems providing over 3 hours of autonomy
- 1 × SLC ADAPT 2 (125 kVA, 100 kVA N+1) in the adjacent Children’s Hospital
- Additional systems deployed:
- 45 kVA (Eye Hospital)
- 50 kVA (new facility building)
- 3 × SLC TWIN PRO 3 (10 kVA) across departments
- Multiple smaller UPS battery backup units distributed throughout the hospital
- 1 × SLC CUBE 3+ (30 kVA) supporting the education centre
Weston Hospital
- Several SLC TWIN PRO 3 units installed in plant rooms
- Dedicated UPS power backup for operating theatres and critical systems
South Buckinghamshire NHS
- Progressive replacement of legacy systems
- Planned upgrade to modular SLC ADAPT units in key areas such as pathology
- Transition from ageing infrastructure to modern, scalable UPS POWER solutions
This multi-layered deployment ensures redundancy, flexibility, and high-performance uninterruptible power supply coverage across all facilities.
This project demonstrates how advanced UPS systems can transform energy resilience in healthcare environments.
Key outcomes include:
- Guaranteed operational continuity through reliable UPS power backup
- Extended autonomy thanks to high-performance UPS battery backup systems
- Scalable and modular unit power supply solutions for future expansion
- Increased reliability in critical areas such as operating theatres and pathology labs
- Seamless replacement of outdated systems with modern UPS POWER infrastructure
Salicru’s solutions provide hospitals with the confidence that their backup power supply will perform under any circumstance, ensuring patient safety and uninterrupted medical care.
If there is one sector where the electricity supply must never fail or cause problems, it is healthcare. What would happen, for example, if operating theatres were plunged into darkness in the middle of a surgical operation? Numerous hospitals in Spain and around the world already use Salicru equipment to make sure their medical services function correctly.
Hospitals have specific and highly complex energy requirements. For example, in the event of a power cut they must be able to continue with an operation, and their equipment must continue to function. Salicru is involved in a number of different projects at the national and international level that are designed to meet the evolving needs of healthcare facilities.
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