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LATEST UCSD MICROGRID CONTROL SYSTEM OPTIMIZES DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES ACCROSS 450 BUILDINGS
Organizations Involved
Additional Details
- 30 KW Panasonic Project, one of first community storage projects in country
- 35 KWH Energy Storage project with MCV Energy
- 100KW/300KWH Zinc/Bromine battery research
- Second Life EV Storage Research
Funded Projects To be operational 2015-16
- ARPAe CHARGES Laboratory and Microgrid Demonstration of Advanced Energy Storage Batteries ($ 3.3 M, 4 yr., ARPA-E)
- 2.5 MW, 5 Mwh, Advanced Energy Storage, Lithium-ion from BYD (SGIP-CPUC)
- 28 kW, Maxwell Labs, Ultra Capacitors, Smoothing of PV intermittency, coupled with solar forecasting (CEC)
- EoS 2x 4 kW, 2x 15 kW, Zynth, Behind the Meter Applications(CEC)
- Lightsail 200 kW, 800 kWh, compressed air energy storage(CEC)
- MCV 35 kW, 35 kWh Compact Li-Ion energy storage system (Industry)
- NRG 100 kWh Li-ion, PV integrated storage with EV DC Fast Charging (CPUC)
- 250 kW, 500 kwhr SGIP PV Integrated Storage (SGIP-CPUC)
- Cogeneration Plant used for heating and cooling
- Diesel Genset backup
- Redirected BioGas, excess methane gas from city of San Diego
- Fuel Cell runs 24/7, provides 8-10 percent of baseload
- Fuel Cell is 68% efficient, one of most efficient in country
Location
UCSD, Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, United States
