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Northern Power Now Offering Turnkey Energy Storage Solutions
08/11/2017
Megawatt-scale systems available with three different battery technologies
BARRE, VT--(Marketwired) - Northern Power Systems Corp now offers a full suite of megawatt-scale energy storage solutions that incorporate various battery types and capabilities, depending on the application and end-user need. In addition to providing multiple battery options, Northern Power, backed by decades of turnkey systems experience, can integrate its own field-proven power conversion and control hardware to deliver the optimum energy storage system.
The company has already qualified and begun integrating batteries from three industry-leading suppliers with different chemistries for a variety of use cases, and anticipates adding to this list of qualified solutions:
- UniEnergy Technologies - vanadium-redox flow batteries
- Eos Energy Storage - zinc hybrid batteries
- Samsung SDI - lithium-ion batteries
"We're the only storage supplier that delivers such a wide range of battery chemistries and configurations to meet any customer end-use requirement," said Ciel Caldwell, Northern Power President and COO. "For over 40 years, our company has supplied wind power, microgrid and power conversion systems across all seven continents. With our deep know-how and proven expertise in the energy industry, storage systems are a natural complement to our turnkey solution offerings."
Northern Power's energy storage systems incorporate batteries from these top-tier suppliers together with the company's FlexPhase power conversion platform, controls, battery management hardware, and ancillary systems. The company is currently working on multiple projects using the different battery technologies. These include a 1 MW / 4 MWh system in Washington state with flow batteries from UniEnergy Technologies, and a 1 MW / 4 MWh system using Eos batteries being installed at an existing location with more than 5 MW of wind and solar capacity in Brazil.
To learn more, visit www.northernpower.com
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