SMA Battery Inverter Sunny Central Storage Secures Grid Stability in California

“We’re so happy this project could be realized with Sunny Central Storage battery inverters,” said Volker Wachenfeld, Executive Vice President Business Unit Offgrid and Storage at SMA. “Global demand for storage technologies is rising and the seamless integration of renewable energies will become one of the major challenges for the energy supply of the future. We are proud that SMA is already offering the right solutions for future-proof energy systems with system technology for integrating storage systems.”

“We chose SMA for this project because of the company’s maximum reliability and availability of its cutting-edge storage technology,” said Dan Sowder, PE Vice President of Power Systems Integration at Doosan GridTech, a software and solution provider responsible for integrating the storage system.

About Doosan GridTech™
Doosan GridTechis a global software and solutions provider that helps electric utilities and other megawatt scale power producers to evaluate, procure, integrate and optimize energy storage and other distributed energy resources. The Seattle-based company has managed nearly 65 MW of multiple energy storage and renewable integration projects on open standards software platforms across the country and in Southeast Asia. It is ranked as one of the top energy storage solution providers by Navigant Research and Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Its parent company, Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co Ltd, is headquartered in South Korea and is a multinational conglomerate with an emphasis on industrial and infrastructure products and services. www.doosangridtech.com

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