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Greensmith Energy Management Systems Launches A la Carte Energy Storage Software and Integration Services
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August 09, 2013

Greensmith Energy Management Systems Launches A la Carte Energy Storage Software and Integration Services

By Madhubanti Rudra
TMCnet Contributor

When it comes to handling today’s fluctuating energy demands, energy storage technology solutions play a key role in maintaining equilibrium. Thus, there exists a booming, global market for energy storage systems that can provide backup power from distributed, green energy sources such as solar and wind power. These systems prove particularly valuable during the periods of high demand and emergency outages. Keen on capitalizing on the growing demands for energy storage technology, Greensmith Energy Management Systems has recently ramped up its product line.


Greensmith Energy Management Systems has been a key player in the energy storage space, but so far the company has delivered only turn-key energy storage solutions for utility-scale and C&I applications. Now the company has come up with a new product line of “a la carte offerings”. Coming with more advanced software and integration capabilities, this new line of energy storage software and integration services is believed to enable both utilities and end users to effectively address the advanced energy storage and grid congestion challenges.

Greensmith reports that it has provided as many as 22 battery systems to 14 of its customers, who include major utilities, renewable power producers and research institutions engaged in developing sustainable end-user solutions, such as EVs, solar photovoltaics and other ancillary services. At the core of Greensmith’s offering is the Battery Operating System (BOS), a patented, modular product aimed at facilitating battery monitoring, protection, and controls for a range of applications.

Greensmith is “battery agnostic.” BOS works with various battery manufacturers, allowing its customers to install the best battery for their desired application and get the maximum value out of any given installation. With the expansion of the battery market and the appearance of more durable, lower-cost battery cells,   Greensmit’s “battery agnostic” solution helps its customers chose the turn-key solutions that best fit their energy storage needs. As such, the software has been utilized to support key grid and micro-grid applications at kWh and MWh levels.

The latest version of BOS, the BOS4, facilitates many other addition functionalities such as frequency regulation, demand management, renewable ramp rate control, and EV charge integration.

An effective energy storage solution can be the first step to reliable supply of green energy. In an effort to share its experience in this all important energy storage field, Greensmith is going to offer a standard API to customers so they may write their own proprietary applications.

For original equipment manufacturers (OEM), project developers and end users, the new offering offers the opportunity to leverage ready-to-apply technology and services that eliminate the need to custom-shop type risks, cutting costs and speeding up project deliveries.

 “Greensmith has always sought to fill the critical gap between good hardware - namely battery and inverter technologies - and the actual value derived by customers trying to solve real-world grid congestion problems. Since our founding in 2008 we viewed energy storage as more than batteries-in-a-box. Accordingly, we invested our capital and resources to build our systems as programmable, distributed computers suited to perform within a changing grid network infrastructure. Sharing these software, data and integration services allows others to benefit from our experience,” Greensmith CEO John Jung explained in a statement.

Greensmith’s upcoming projects include several community energy storage-size systems of 100 kilowatt (kW) / 200 kilowatt hours (kWh) for distribution-level interconnection, and two megawatt (MW)-scale projects in California. The latter megawatt-scale projects represent a 10-fold increase in power capacity, compared to the company’s installations just two years ago and a four-fold increase in the energy capacity installed by the company in 2012.




Edited by Blaise McNamee


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