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Xcel Energy Selects GridPoint Software Platform for Wind-To-Battery Project
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008Project Extends Xcel Energy and GridPoint Business Relationship
ARLINGTON, VA – Nov. 18, 2008 – GridPoint, Inc., a leading clean tech company whose smart grid software platform benefits electric utilities, consumers and the environment, announced today that Xcel Energy selected GridPoint’s software platform to control the flow of power between the grid and a NGK Insulators’ sodium-sulfur battery storing wind energy. When fully charged, the one-megawatt battery will hold approximately 7.2 megawatt-hours of electricity, potentially powering 500 homes for over seven hours. This is the first U.S. application of the battery as a direct wind energy storage device.
The GridPoint Platform applies information technology to the electric grid to provide utilities with an intelligent network of distributed energy resources that controls load, stores energy and produces power. It will allow Xcel Energy to explore using real-time grid conditions and energy pricing to determine when the battery charges or discharges. Based on system regulation and pricing signals received by the software platform, the battery’s charging behavior will be adaptively controlled. When the demand for electricity is high, as an example, stored wind energy could be automatically discharged to the grid, supplementing the power flow. When demand is low, the software platform could issue commands for the battery to store the available energy. (more…)
THE SMART GRID: INFRASTRUCTURE STRATEGY FOR THE LOW CARBON SOCIETY
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008THE SMART GRID: INFRASTRUCTURE STRATEGY FOR THE LOW CARBON SOCIETY: “To accomplish this portfolio, the US needs a distributed infrastructure
strategy, namely a Smart Grid. With such a platform, a more diverse portfolio of solutions
can aid any country that seeks some measure of energy independence through development
of its domestic resources. There are new technologies available today, and in the near future,
that make these domestic renewable and distributed resources affordable and sustainable”
(Via THE SMART GRID: INFRASTRUCTURE STRATEGY FOR THE LOW CARBON SOCIETY.)
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