Energy Storage Software Leader an Integral Partner in 35 Grid-Scale Projects Across the Country
EMERYVILLE, CA--(Marketwired - Sep 30, 2014) - Greensmith, a leading provider of energy storage management software and associated services, announced today that it is seeing dramatic growth in the grid-scale energy storage market, with 23 megawatts (MW) worth of projects utilizing its GEMS energy storage software platform commissioned in 2014.
This growth in demand is being driven by utilities, renewable energy project developers, and other customers who are increasingly using energy storage for a variety of applications, including frequency regulation, capacity, ramp rate control, Transmission and Distribution (T&D) deferral, and renewables smoothing, according to Greensmith.
This growth has placed Greensmith ahead of its 2014 goals. Highlights include:
Sample projects that are deploying the Greensmith's GEMS software platform include:
The market for advanced batteries for utility-scale energy storage applications will grow from $164 million in 2014 to more than $2.5 billion in 2023, according to Navigant Research.
"While demand for grid-scale storage is growing, the challenges related to developing these highly specialized systems remains," said John Jung, CEO of Greensmith. "The GEMS software platform provides customers with the intelligence and flexibility they need to make energy storage systems a versatile part of their operations, and not just pilot projects or assets with functionality that is limited to a single application."
Software Platform Optimizes Energy Storage
The GEMS software platform integrates every piece of hardware in an energy storage system, including batteries and inverters. It then manages this hardware to optimize the storage system for application performance, longevity, and return on investment.
The GEMS software platform also increases flexibility in the design, deployment and use of grid-scale energy storage systems. The GEMS software platform is hardware agnostic, allowing users to mix and match multiple types and brands of batteries and other types of hardware in the same system, thereby lowering costs, avoiding vendor lock-in and improving the system's overall return on investment.
In addition, energy storage systems running the GEMS software platform can be used for multiple applications. For example, because GEMS monitors and controls every piece of hardware and software in a storage system individually, the system can be used for demand response during one part of the day and then later used for grid balancing or Electric Vehicle (EV) charging later in the day.
This technology enables Greensmith's customers to take a distributed approach to storage. The GEMS software platform provides them with the flexibility needed to deploy energy storage pods at various points on T&D networks, helping them lower the costs and risk of deployment while increasing the versatility and overall capabilities of the system.
About Greensmith:
Greensmith's mission is to make energy storage a fundamental component of a cleaner, more advanced energy infrastructure. Its intelligent and flexible GEMS software platform optimizes the performance of a grid-scale energy storage system's batteries, inverters and other hardware, lowering costs and improving the system's return on investment. Greensmith's GEMS energy storage software platform is currently used by 19 customers for multiple applications at 35 different sites, representing over 23 megawatts of storage capacity.
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