Satcon Awarded $2 Million Grant by California Energy Commission
11 Luglio 2012 - 2:30PM
Business Wire
Satcon Technology Corporation® (NASDAQ CM: SATC), a leading
provider of utility-grade power conversion solutions for the
renewable energy market, along with A123 Systems, Renewable Energy
Services (RES), and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District
(SMUD) announced today that they have been selected by the
California Energy Commission (Energy Commission) to receive a $2
million grant to develop and demonstrate methods to reduce the
effects of renewable power intermittency. The grant is part of a
larger initiative to develop the core solutions to enable higher
penetration of renewable power onto the electric grid through
advanced solar energy harvest, storage and array control
capabilities.
Utility-scale solar deployment is a crucial part in attaining
California’s renewable energy goals, including achieving 33 percent
of utility loads in the state with renewable energy by 2020.
Successfully managing the intermittent nature of solar energy
remains a challenge for Utilities looking to increase the
deployment of solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants on their grid
networks. This Satcon led project is designed to address these grid
integration challenges through the development of PV integrated
electric energy storage systems capable of voltage and frequency
support, PV firming, real power dispatch and ramp rate control. The
project team will develop, test and demonstrate the proposed
technology at SMUD’s corporate headquarters in Sacramento,
California.
“One of SMUD’s key challenges is to ensure that the grid is able
to serve loads at all times while accommodating higher levels of
renewable energy integration. Addressing key issues, such as
ensuring a stable power flow into the grid from renewable sources,
is critical to the success of using renewables as a major energy
supplier,” said Mark Rawson of SMUD. “Satcon’s expertise in
advanced solar inverter system technologies and experience with
large-scale solar plant grid integration, combined with A123’s
advanced lithium ion battery technology, will help us address these
key challenges via this project.”
The project is part of the Energy Commission’s Public Interest
Energy Research (PIER) Renewable Program, which funds initiatives
that help meeting research, development and demonstration needs
related to more rapid and environmentally responsible deployment of
utility-scale renewable energy. The project will be the first of
its kind to demonstrate a highly efficient and cost effective
electric energy storage system specifically designed and optimized
for grid tied PV applications.
The system will be comprised of a 500kW PV array, Satcon’s 500kW
PowerGate Plus utility-ready inverter solution and a 500kWh
advanced lithium ion battery energy storage system from A123 that
will leverage a high power, high voltage version of Satcon’s
battery power conditioning system (Satcon Spectrum PCS) featuring
Satcon’s EDGE Adaptive Control Architecture™ (EDGE ACA) to enable
voltage stabilization, frequency control and continuous operation
of the PV plant in the event of major grid instabilities including
faults.
“Satcon has always been the industry’s leading innovator for
large-scale solar power production and power plant control,” said
Leo Casey, Chief Technology Officer for Satcon. “As we seek to
integrate renewable energy sources into the grid, improved controls
and energy storage systems to reduce power output fluctuations
become critical. These capabilities have been developed and
deployed across multiple projects over the past four years,
including commercial PV and energy storage integration projects and
the Solar Energy Grid Integration Systems (SEGIS) development and
demonstration project funded by the United States Department of
Energy (DOE). The Energy Commission project enables us to
accelerate the development and deployment of the next generation of
controls and energy storage technologies that are central to
tomorrow’s power grid.”
About Satcon
Satcon Technology Corporation is the leading provider of utility
scale power solutions for the renewable energy market, enabling the
industry’s most advanced reliable and proven clean energy
alternatives. For over 27 years, Satcon has designed and delivered
the next generation of efficient energy systems for solar
photovoltaic, stationary fuel cells, and energy storage systems. To
learn more about Satcon, please visit www.Satcon.com
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