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In his presentation at this year's SCTE Conference on Emerging Technologies -- now available as an online audiovisual lecture on the SCTE Web site -- Ralph J. Brodd, Ph.D., president of the consulting firm Broddarp of Nevada, emphasized the growing importance of battery backup powering. Citing a decrease in the development of new equipment and generating plants, Brodd says we will experience more power outages in the future.

"Twenty years ago," said Brodd, "we had 30% excess capacity and generation capability; today it's around 10% excess. That means there's a good possibility outages will happen more frequently."

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