A San Francisco start-up company founded three years ago, recently entered into a contract, Tesla will be purchased and installed a large 500 megawatt hours of power battery. This deal in the next five years, installing tens of thousands of Tesla Powerwall battery. The company named Advanced Microgrid Solutions, its main battery installed in the building, and intelligent software to manage energy, to help make better use of the grid.
The company co-founder Susan Kennedy and Jackalyne Pfannenstiel, who has many years of experience in the energy industry, and had positions in the Government sector. Apart from the two founder with rich human resources, but the company also has a heavyweight Advisory--DBL investment company partner Nancy Pfund and early Tesla investors.
The company's deal with Tesla is significant. After they investigated the technology companies, selected suppliers of Tesla's battery technology as a project, as Tesla's most powerful, and has its own style. Tesla now uses Panasonic lithium-ion batteries, and developed their own software system for management of electrical and electronic equipment and batteries. Tesla sells Advanced Microgrid Solutions such as public utilities and partner of battery is called Powerpack and it for home and enterprise-ready battery systems called Powerwall.
In times of peak or fluctuation of renewable, the battery can reduce the burden on the network, providing continuous power. In this way, utility replaced battery peak power plant, because such plants are often very expensive to build, and is used only during peak hours. When put the battery and renewable energy use, storage systems can be in sunlight is not sufficient, or under the conditions of no wind, providing needed energy.
For the owners of commercial buildings, and when the price is higher, you can also use the battery energy, thereby reducing the companies ' expenses, this is known as the peak. When the woman began programming when
Advanced Microgrid Solutions are not used only in building software and battery company, Stem,Greensmith Energy and GELI, startups and big companies such as GE are involved. Tesla himself with numerous project and software development in cooperation, which included large listed companies such as AES and EnerNOC.
Advanced Microgrid Solutions stand out, because it is through its equipment and systems management, realize the practical and commercial integration. The company's software architecture of the total load connected to the system, create a lot of hybrid power architecture. Like hybrid vehicles can switch on electricity and oil, also can switch on battery power at all times.
The company last year with Southern California Edison Company had entered into a 50-megawatt deal that surprised energy storage industry because it has kept a low profile. In its contracts with Tesla, Tesla will provide to the Edison project.
Also of note is that California Government is also strengthening the work on energy storage in batteries of electric power facilities, rules in the year 2020 can store thousands of megawatt-level of energy.
Advanced Microgrid Solutions now for $ 18.8 million in financing, and details of the other project financing will gradually disclosed. As to whether it's smart software and can keep its leading position with Tesla's orders, was worth the wait.
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