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IEEE symposium
June 2016
Solantro 2
Challenge of new technology
• DER (Distributed Energy Resources): Growing diversity of energy sources and storage
• Emerging bottom-up electrification
• New demands for energy: Electric vehicles, IoT’s smart devices
• Connection between a smart grid and the internet
Goal of DER is unachievable with current cost structures
Grid Energy Storage
Microturbine
Energy Storage Monitoring,
Communications
& Control
Switch & Power
Electronics
Distributed
Generation
Fuel
Cells
Electric Vehicles (EV)
Home Energy System
Distributed
Generation
Solantro 3
Differentiation blocks standardization
Issues with status quo: • Vendors should not differentiate on essential features that need to
be common, if market is to scale
• Misplaced differentiation causes unneeded complexity
• Complexity raises cost, decreases reliability, blocks scale
Failure to standardize in DER solutions will block cost reductions needed to increase scale
Solantro 4
The need for open standards
Objective:
• Facilitate proper differentiation
Methodology:
• Identify what is common
• Publish open standards for the common
• Deliver purpose built solutions that cover the common and also support useful differentiation
Purpose built chipset using digital power processor (dP2) technology
Complete power systems reference designs and development tools, enabling
customers to deploy differentiated products with:
• Highest Performance
• Best Reliability
• Lowest BOM Cost
• Shortest Time to market
Solantro 5
Solantro’s approach
Solantro 6
Portability of value of dP2 chipset
Digital Power Processing (dP2) chipset and development platforms
Solantro
DC Power Converters
Fault Detect
VAR Comp
PV Inverters
(blades, micro, string)
Battery Inverters
Solantro 7
Applications needing open standards
• DC and AC power systems (PV, battery) for residential applications
• Hybrid systems for commercial applications
• Nano-grids and micro-grids
• Electric vehicles
• Grids of nano- & micro-grids
8
Enabling future generation of DER solutions
Solantro
Electric
Vehicles
Grid-tied and/or off grid
nano-grid for residential,
industrial and commercial
applications
AC/DC hybrid
electrical system
The future: πoT (PioT)
Smart modules
Nano-grids
Micro-grids
Smart phone
Monitoring station
Data centers
Power distribution
Data transmission
πoT: the network is the grid
Communication and
control interconnect
(gateway)
THINGS OF
POWER
INTERNET
OF THINGS
Power is delivered by a network of power and
information exchanging things
real-time power conversion and
delivery system
Solantro 9
Solantro 10
Summary
• Cost reduction is needed for the DER* vision
• Current DER has complex, proprietary/closed, expensive, non-scalable solutions
• Standardization will enable economically efficient approaches
• Solantro is expanding its OEM/ODM partnerships to develop purpose built integrated circuits that make the common elements standard and support useful differentiation
*DER: Distributed Energy Resources