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are performing in real time to prioritize
and manage initiatives that reduce energy
consumption and emissions. " The
company said its energy efficiency management
software can " Increase the
visibility of your building's energy usage
patterns, reduce energy costs with alerts
about energy waste, and use data-driven
analytics to determine where to focus
energy efficiency programs. "
Schneider Electric's EcoStruxure Power,
featuring power and energy meters
and management software, and power
quality monitoring, provides facility and
maintenance teams " more insight and
control over electrical power, " utilizing
" digitization, connectivity, and advanced
analytics ... needed to deliver
the relevant information needed to
improve asset management, reliability,
operational efficiency, and sustainability. "
Schneider notes that " smart power
distribution is at the core of a smart
building or campus. Unified platforms
are empowering operators and occupants
with new levels of visibility and
actionable information. "
Albireo Energy, headquartered in
Edison, New Jersey, is a global provider
of building technology solutions " optimizing
performance, reducing cost,
increasing reliability, and decreasing energy
usage. " Among its services is the
integration of programmable logic controllers
(PLCs), which it designs to integrate
with devices using the Internet of
Things (IoT), robotics, vision systems,
and more.
PLCs " are specialized, hardened computer
devices that connect different
units and enable them to work in a coordinated
manner, " according to Albireo.
A PLC " has two programs, the operating
system (OS) and the user program. The
OS runs tasks and programs automatically.
The user program is the part of the
PLC that allows operators to key in outputs
they require, which can be stored
in the PLC's memory. These programs
work together to process key tasks. "
Yotta Energy, a Texas-based solar energy
equipment supplier, has partnered
with AP Systems, a microinverter technology
manufacturer, to develop a dual-power
inverter (DPI), a power conversion system
designed to be interchangeable between
solar and energy storage. The company
said the DPI " delivers maximum flexibility
and brings all the benefits of a microinverter
at costs comparable to string inverters. "
The system, rated at 1.2 kW, is a four-port
microinverter " capable of accommodating
up to four high-capacity PV modules [each
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3. Yotta Energy's SolarLeaf energy storage
technology can be paired with the company's
dual-power inverter, providing flexibility
for a solar-plus-storage system suitable for
commercial and industrial sites. Courtesy:
Yotta Energy
up to 440 W] and is directly compatible
with Yotta's SolarLeaf SL1000 [Figure 3]
energy storage technology. "
Yotta's technology will be used in
a new solar-plus-storage microgrid at
Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas.
" Yotta Energy is a great candidate for
this program, " said Timothy Tetreault,
project manager at ESTCP, or Environmental
Security Technology Certification
Program, the Department of Defense's
environmental technology demonstration
and validation program. Tetreault
said Yotta's system is valuable " because
of the distributed and flexible solution
the technology provides for different
use cases on military installations. We
are excited to implement this technology
at Nellis Air Force Base as we strive
to future-proof our military with resilient
and sustainable solutions. "
Markets, Regulation, Utilities
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
(FERC) in 2020 issued Order 2222,
which essentially opened wholesale
electricity markets to DERs. Energy analysts
said the order provides an opportunity
for investor-owned utilities to design
a distributed energy operating model focused
on customer needs.
Ken Schisler, vice president of Regulatory
Affairs for CPower, a company that
serves hundreds of customers and manages
more than 5.3 GW of DER capacity
across North America, told POWER, " In
the early 2000s, regional transmission
operators [RTOs]/independent system
operators [ISOs] created market opportunities
for demand response [DR] and
now DERs to participate as supply resources
in the market competing against
generation resources.
This enabled
customers to get paid directly for making
their flexibility available as opposed
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to participation on the demand side,
which meant exposing themselves to
more pricing risk in the hope of capturing
some savings from flexibility. "
Schisler said, " This supply side approach
has proven the most successful
model worldwide to deploy DR and
DERs. This single policy innovation
brought in thousands of new megawatts
to participate in flexibility programs
that likely would not have materialized.
There is nothing inherently wrong with
demand side approaches like time-ofuse
pricing, etc. But they are decidedly
less popular with customers than the
supply side approaches. "
Schisler said Order 2222 " enables
DER aggregators to develop more diverse
portfolios that will be more valuable
to the system than the sum of its
individual DERs. As the price of a lot of
these technologies, like solar panels,
batteries, energy management systems,
and other DERs, come down even further,
our customers' appetite for gridedge
technologies continues to grow. By
removing barriers to DER aggregation,
FERC opened up revenue potential that
will make it easier for even more energy
users to invest in DERs. "
Some markets are moving more
swiftly than others to incentivize C&I
power systems with DERs, whether
as part of decarbonization programs or
establishing virtual power plants (VPPs).
" One trend we're starting to see more
of is interest from utility companies in
power generation and storage assets sited
at C&I customers, " said Feutz. " Their
interest is in systems that can provide
benefits to the customer [energy reduction,
peak demand shaving, resiliency]
as well as to the utility [peak load reduction,
voltage/frequency support, reduced
need for distribution upgrades]. I
think we'll continue to see dual interest
in these types of assets from both sides
of this equation. "
Said Suri: " Software and data analytics
represent the engine powering many
of the energy innovations discussed
above. Experts believe that a smarter
grid will be crucial to reaching the level
of decarbonization required in the U.S.
and beyond. The C&I sectors, especially
those with large electricity demands,
should expect to see a significant influx
of solutions that drive energy bill savings,
facilitate the sale of excess power
back to the grid, and support the broader
shift toward cleaner, cheaper power. " ■
-Darrell Proctor is a senior associate
editor for POWER.
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