Balance Energy will provide overall system engineering and architecture for the end-to-end Smart Grid demonstration project that will create a community-scale utility system that interconnects greater percentages of renewable generation – at both the distribution- and transmission-system levels.
The system will store electricity and use automated sensors and communication technologies to help manage the intermittent energy resources. Once successful, the prototype project can be recreated on a larger scale anywhere in the world.
Lee Krevat, director of smart grid at SDG&E, said: “Our project focuses on a number of key success factors, most important of which are engaging the customers, securing the system, addressing the intermittency of renewable energy and integration. The project comprises a coalition of forward-thinking local, national and global organizations that will transform the San Diego region’s electrical grid into a digital smart grid.”
Terry Mohn, vice president and chief innovation officer of Balance Energy, said: “This project will transform the way smart grid deployments occur from here on. SDG&E, who is already a leader in the smart grid space, will show how microgrids can be managed across vast geographic areas, incorporating renewables and managing load according to the variability of generation.”
Balance Energy focuses on the end-to-end development, design and deployment of integrated microgrid and dispatchable renewable generation solutions.
