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Greentech Media | By: Jeff St. John | June 27, 2017:
One of the country’s biggest microgrid providers plans to share technologies and markets with one of California’s top BTM storage startups.
Microgrids require a hefty combination of technologies to execute properly. They also require software that can turn those distributed, behind-the-meter resources into multiple revenue streams in order to make that technology worth the investment.
On Tuesday, PowerSecure, the provider of a 1.5-gigawatt fleet of backup power systems at grocery stores, data centers and military bases across the country, announced a partnership with Advanced Microgrid Solutions, the California startup that’s building more than 100 megawatts of utility-facing behind-the-meter battery systems.
The strategic alliance will combine each company’s particular strengths in search of opportunities with existing and potential customers, as well as developing a collaboration to jointly build new products and services, said Advanced Microgrid Solutions President Kelly Warner in an interview.
In particular, it will examine how batteries, not a big part of PowerSecure’s fleet today, could “make these distributed energy resources real-time dispatchable,” to capture opportunities in fast-responding grid markets as well as peak shaving, load shifting and other services. “That’s one of the things you would probably see in one of our combined solutions,” said Warner.
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