LAS VEGAS, Aug. 30, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- SOLAR POWER
INTERNATIONAL – Developed in partnership with solar and
energy storage installers to optimize equipment and streamline cost
calculations, SimpliPhi Power has released a complete plug-and-play
Energy Storage System (ESS) that easily integrates power storage
into new and existing solar installations both on and off grid.
SimpliPhi's fully integrated solution includes the company's
award-winning battery technology combined with a Schneider Electric
inverter charge controller and associated power electronics and
system management in one elegant box. Pre-programmed software
settings and system performance monitoring round out the solution.
By eliminating any ventilation or active cooling requirements,
SimpliPhi's new all-in-one ESS can be safely installed both outside
and inside.
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"Mitigating the impact of power outages, the increase in
distributed renewable generation at times of low use, the rising
costs of base and peak power and the trend to reduce or eliminate
net metering programs is opening up opportunities for solar
installers to offer storage as an integral part of their solutions.
Many solar installers are not battery experts, yet this expertise
is what is required to select equipment to design a system that
optimally integrates energy storage. We wanted to offer them an
all-in-one-box solution to simplify the prospect of adding storage
to meet their customer's needs," said SimpliPhi CEO Catherine Von Burg. "Installers collaborated
with us on the design of this new product because they were
frustrated by the lack of product readiness, adaptability and
scalability, as well as the needless complexity offered by other
manufacturers with cooling and thermal regulation requirements. We
worked together to combine best-in-class technologies into one
plug-in box that can scale without the need of ventilation, cooling
or the risk of thermal runaway characteristic of other lithium ion
storage technologies."
SimpliPhi assembles all the equipment into the ESS box and ships
it out as a plug-and-play solution. The ESS offers three software
modalities that meet the requirements of different applications,
such as new and retrofit systems, including solutions that
utilities can access for asset monitoring and deployment off-site
for grid stabilization.
"SimpliPhi's ESS was developed to help solve many energy storage
pain-points that installers have with other storage systems," said
Michelle Klassen, president of LkM
Solutions, who has also partnered with SimpliPhi in the development
of the product. "This is why the ESS comes pre-integrated to work
with microinverter, self-consumption and net-metered systems, for
example."
With the first units headed to Hawaii, a full roll out of the ESS begins in
the fall of 2016 for residential and commercial installers.
"Here in Hawaii, we were
searching for a storage solution with lower installed costs that
was faster and easier to install in more places than what was
available to us. For our customers, the ability to install the
SimpliPhi ESS outside gives us a major competitive advantage when
bidding projects," said Mike Paul,
president of Apex Electric, who also collaborated with SimpliPhi on
product development.
Visit SimpliPhi at Solar Power International (Booth #1722 and
the Smart Energy Microgrid Pavilion)
SimpliPhi Power will be featured in the live Smart Energy
Microgrid Pavilion, as well as on the main floor at Solar Power
International, held at the Las
Vegas Convention Center on September
12-15, 2016. Visitors can learn about SimpliPhi's new ESS
solution, portable power products, as well as low and high voltage
batteries for residential, commercial and military on and off grid
applications.
For technical specifications, download the ESS spec sheet here,
OR to learn more about the ESS product, visit:
http://simpliphipower.com/product/energy-storage-system/.
About SimpliPhi Power
Founded in 2002 as LibertyPak/Optimized Energy Storage,
SimpliPhi Power designs and manufactures efficient, non-toxic and
enduring energy storage and management systems that utilize lithium
ferro phosphate (LFP). Based in Ojai,
California, SimpliPhi combines non-hazardous energy storage
chemistry with its proprietary cell and battery architecture, power
electronics, Battery Management System (BMS) and methods of
assembly to create safe, reliable, durable and highly scalable
on-demand power solutions for the residential, commercial,
military, emergency response and film industries. Integral to all
SimpliPhi Power solutions is a proprietary management system that
further optimizes the life-cycle, performance and durability of its
batteries. SimpliPhi Power storage system components are UL
certified and have been rigorously tested and passed requirements
by the U.S. Army and Marine Corp. For more information, please
visit SimpliPhiPower.com and follow us @SimpliPhiPower or Facebook
and LinkedIn.