b.c. firms see a future in power storage systems - battery energy storage system

ZincNyx President and CEO of energy solutions Suresh sin, right, Tristan Sloan, mechanical engineer, left, technician Noe Negapatan, a company in Vancouver
A lot of renewable energy issues-
Wind and solar farms, run-of-river hydro —
It's that they often run out of the most power when utilities don't need it, but it gets darker when they really want it.
Balancing peaks and lows from intermittent energy sources is a major challenge for power companies to integrate them into the grid, which is why some people thinkC. -
S. -based companies want to profit from energy development.
Storage technology.
"Oh, the market is huge," said Suresh Singh, CEO of a startup.
ZincNyx Energy Solutions
This is a development.
Called the streaming battery power storage system.
"Billions of dollars," he said . "
In fact, about $10.
According to the research commissioned by ZincNyx and conducted by Navigant, a consulting firm, 5 billion.
ZincNyx technology, so-
Called a mobile battery, it is a renewable fuel.
A battery system that uses electricity when no electricity is needed and uses it to generate fuel from zinc
The oxide stored in the tank is then run through the fuel cell, which converts it back to power when needed.
The market is driven primarily by other jurisdictions, such as California-
If the utility regulator authorizes renewable energy
Energy suppliers begin to develop a certain amount of storage capacity
As well as China, Japan and Germany, where more and more renewable energy is coming into the system may flood their respective power grids.
Technical scope from straight-up batteries —
With the development of new lithium technology
More possible extended storage
Use compressed air or heat as input to flow systems similar to ZincNyx and mechanical systems
Between media that store power.
In the battery system, the battery pack can be loaded into a bank of container size.
From the BC Hydro point of view, use its large hydropower station to balance the intermittent output and operation of the wind farmof-
The river power plant it needs to absorb is still a cheaper option compared to other storage technologies.
Randy Lehman, director of resource planning at utilities, said it could take decades to drain the ability to do so.
There are also some big players involved in serving big players.
The size of markets like South Korean industrial giants Samsung and LG is over, said Richmond executive Sean census ski.
Headquartered in Corvus Energy, but his company is looking for a niche to fill with ZincNyx and others.
Puchalski, vice president of Corvus, said: "We are carefully advancing the integration of fixed power and renewable energy . "
President of strategic marketing and client.
The main focus of Corvus is the marine industry, where it has gained a reputation for manufacturing large lithium
Polymer battery pack for hybrid powerpowered ships.
It makes up to 2 systems. 6 megawatt-
Hours of storage capacity-
Enough to power about 220 houses a day.
However, he said that Corvus's battery is a "premium product" and that its strategy is to be careful, given the financial resources of competitors in the utility market --
Scale applications.
Overall, however, the electricity storage market is "growing by orders of magnitude", Mr. census said ".
"ZincNyx is also approaching the market, focusing on starting from an early age and trying to serve the niche market of" our own backyard, "Singh said.
Companies supported by Teck Resources Limited
From the age of five
The kW prototype this summer
However, its hope is to commercialize the technology by 2016 and be able to assemble batteries into megawatt units that can be packaged into containers by 2017.
BC Hydro is also interested in alternative storage technologies for niche applications that may be more viable in the medium term, Reimann said.
Hydro is trying to use the battery storage system as a backup power supply for the local power system, which is located in a small community east of gold in the Rocky Mountains.
The community's local transport system is close to capacity, but not enough to justify the cost of upgrading it and $13, Reimann said. 5-
At the same time, the million battery system has proved to be a useful bridging tool.
The company also operates more than a dozen diesel power stations, usually serving remote communities that are not on the main grid, such as Dease Lake and Anahim Lake.
Getting these communities out of diesel is one of BC Hydro's priorities, says Reimann, and if a storage system can be used with renewable energy and costs are reasonable then they are interested
"If there is Storage (technologies)
A fair cut down on the price, I . E (option)
"It could take 10 or 15 years," Reimann said . ".
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