Modular container energy solutions

Adding Renewable Energy to the Energy Supply

By adding an own renewable energy source to a facility’s energy supply our system will save both money and CO emissions in the balance sheets. The internal “cost” or producing own energy from renewable sources outcompetes the cost from most energy grids around the world, in some cases the cost of self produced renewable energy can be more than 10 times cheaper than acquiring energy from the energy grid. The value of CO2 savings is vastly increasing as new market trends and political decisions demands them.

Hedging the Energy Cost

Investing in or leasing a renewable energy system means that a percentage of the annual energy bill will now come as a hedged and fixed cost, a renewable energy system based on solar, hydro or wind does not have any consumables, which could suffer market demand increses, as such only the initial investment or lease cost is depreciated over its service life and only adding small annual maintenance cost. This is also referred to as Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) which is now a hedged variable in the balance sheets where the only variable will be how much energy is produced and used.

Back Up Power

Our systems primary function is to add renewable energy to a facility and save annual cost. A secondary benefit is to have it as a first back up source which can operate in case of black out from the grid and in term minimizing and controlling if a secondary back up source such as a diesel generator or fuel cell should be brought online.

Fuel Saving on Diesel Generators

If a facility operates solely or frequently on diesel generators our system will primarily displace fuel usage by adding a renewable energy source. With energy storage included the secondary benefit comes from saving fuel by minimizing the hours diesel generators needs to run and when they need to run, they can be operated with optimized fuel efficiency typically increasing the fuel to energy conversion efficiency by 30-50% and reduction from 24 hours to 2-4 hours diesel operation decrease O&M cost and vastly extends the service life of the generators.

Off Grid Operation

This system can operate completely independently and supply energy direct from the sun at daytime and from the energy storage at night time. In a location where there ALWAYS MUST be power the system can work with back up power, like 2 units of diesel generators OR 2 units of Fuelcells OR 1 diesel generator and 1 Fuelcell depending on the need for redundancy and green policies

Parallel Operation and Integration

A single container unit can be expanded in capacity by adding more containers to meet any size of power demand. 1 or more containers can be interconnected with existing energy infrastructure and/or interconnect with additional new energy sources such as wind turbines, biomass boilers and hydro power facilities

Distributed Energy Resource (D.E.R.) Operation and MESH Grid Capability

The systems Artificial Intelligence opens the opportunity to have multiple units scattered over a larger area to power an entire village, city region, island or even a whole country. The basic principle is to produce energy right where it is needed, while maintaining the safety of supply by having all systems connected to each other and operate as complete energy grid. If the systems have individual owners and many consumers automated Blockchain ledgers will record who made the energy and who used it for billing purposes.

Time Shifting

Save energy produced in daytime for use at night, typically from a solar source which has a very high production mid day, but no production at night. Our system stores the surplus energy from mid day to use at night.

Trading with the Energy Grid/Time of Use Optimization/Peak Shaving

Energy markets are in many places billed by different cost over the hours of the day, typically pricing can be 5 times more at “peak hours” than “off peak hours”, this system can be programmed to optimize when stored energy is used either at specific times or when the market price is at its highest, it can even be programmed to BUY energy from the energy grid when the cost is low and use or even SELL when the cost is high – this can mean significant economic value over a year.

Load Capacity Shaving

In many energy markets an industrial user is billed for an “Availability” of energy or the size of the connection capacity to the energy grid. A production facility may from time to time need to start up big machines which draws a lot of energy for short periods of time while its normal operation demand is far less. In market where such capacity billing is in place our system can be programmed to take care of the “extra” power needed at these times and as such a user needs a smaller capacity connection and can save monthly billing cost this way.