Maxwell Technologies Ultracapacitors Deployed in Ireland Microgrid Energy Storage System

The industry leader in the super capacitor energy storage and transmission solution developers and manufacturers Maxwell technology company, has announced the German renewable energy systems developers and distributors FREQCON companies have for Ireland Tallaght smart grid test platform to develop a set of energy storage system. The system USES super capacitor and Maxwell lithium ion batteries to provide electricity for residential and industrial networks, to ensure that the stability of power grid. Freqcon company "micro power grid Stabilizer (Microgrid Stabilizer)" can solve the renewable energy power pulsations of the problems of high permeability.

In Ireland for 2020 of 40% renewable energy target and make unremitting efforts, at the same time, south Dublin county county council and micro grid electricity association (MEGA) operate together Tallaght smart grid test platform for energy storage technology will demonstrate how to minimize distribution problems and instability of the grid. Used with a variety of power grid, the Irish grid must be before to the end user distribution to solve the problem of voltage and frequency.

MEGA secretary-general Dudley Stewart said: "the smart grid project is a priority project of Ireland, and according to the concrete conditions of local power grid problems also differ in thousands ways. Freqcon's micro power stabilizer can be customized for each project. Super capacitor combined with batteries using Maxwell, infinite prospect. We are looking forward to more such systems in the near future in the field deployment."

The platform using Freqcon "stabilizer" micro power grid to ensure stable voltage and frequency, it combines lithium ion battery and super capacitor is used, provide active power support for power distribution network. Maxwell's super capacitor is used to perform, such as a quick frequency response function and the battery is used to peak disappear and running of the reserves.

Freqcon CEO Norbert Hennchen said: "the grid energy storage system related market is on the rise, fast frequency response is a very important system for grid services. Super capacitor is an ideal technology to perform this function. With our long-term partnership with Maxwell and application of super capacitor in our fan is analyzed.studying system experience, we are pushing the technology to power grid stability field."

Maxwell's President and chief executive of Franz Dr Fink said: "the European Union, China, America and other countries around the world are to achieve their own goals for generating electricity by renewable energy consumption and the efforts to ensure that the best renewable energy power generation will be crucial. With the use of fossil fuels by reductions in the operation of the synchronous generator, the power grid stability become a problem. We expect to deal with the problem of the super capacitor can play an important role."

And through chemical reaction to produce and store energy battery, super capacitor electric field energy storage. The electrostatic energy storage mechanism of super capacitor makes it not only can accomplish the charge and discharge, in less than a second - 40 c ~ + normal work of the wide range of temperatures of up to 65 degrees Celsius, reliable operation more than one million times charging and discharging cycles, and resistance to vibration and shock. Maxwell can provide capacitance is 1 ~ 3400 f super capacitor monomer and 12 ~ 160 v more modules.