Nhu Energy, is underway with an effort to develop sophisticated new technologies for integrating and controlling Battery Energy Storage Systems used together with solar and other energy sources for commercial and electric utility applications. 

This initiative will improve the economics and performance of Battery Energy Storage Systems employed in power distribution systems such as the electric utility grid and large commercial facilities such as hospitals.  Battery Energy Storage is a costly but increasingly necessary component in power systems because it can be combined with variable energy resources such as solar and wind to allow a larger portion of our energy to come from clean renewable resources without compromising reliability.   Incorporating battery performance prediction into optimization and control will improve the overall value proposition for energy storage microgrids.

Nhu Energy’s suite of advanced distributed energy and microgrid optimization and control technologies that provide the digital intelligence to allow battery energy storage systems (BESS’s) to work effectively in power distribution systems such as the electric grid and large commercial facilities such as hospitals in a way that  olar and battery performance and other factors like spot market energy prices to optimize energy costs. AORA will be enhanced by the Simultaneous Battery and Capacitor Design Tool (SiMod), a software tool for predicting battery performance developed by another Tallahassee-based firm, Moye Consultants. 

Rick Meeker, founder of Nhu Energy, has stated, “We are pleased to have been selected by the DOE from among a multitude of applicants for this important work to improve the ability of batteries coupled with clean energy such as solar to enable transformation to clean, resilient, and affordable power and energy systems of the future.  SBIR’s    This is a unique project in that it brings together technologies from two Tallahassee firms with roots in Innovation Park and the Tallahassee R&D and tech. ecosystem.”

Davis George Moye, Moye Consultants’ Founder, commented, “The SiMod suite has been a work in progress for a several years.  Early on we saw that it could benefit the electric power industry by helping utility grid operators to understand how their batteries will perform.  Now we are excited to partner with Nhu Energy to prove this idea!  Most battery research focuses on inventing new and better batteries.  We are taking a different approach by understanding the batteries the power grid is already using, then maximizing the performance of what we already have.”