Benefit Controls at an Enel Photo voltaic Vitality website in Scurry, Texas.
Sungrow has shaped a strategic nonexclusive partnership with U.S.-based Benefit Controls to supply North American builders a brand new choice for streamlined controls and cybersecurity.
Collectively they’ve created a de-risked, confirmed and safe answer that mixes Benefit’s native Vitality Administration System (EMS), SCADA and community experience with Sungrow’s best-in-class built-in vitality storage methods — a mix meant to assist initiatives meet more and more complicated utility and regulatory necessities.
“As clear vitality infrastructure turns into extra distributed and digital, it’s crucial that our trade assume past efficiency and likewise stress resilience,” mentioned Michael Hudson, Director of Cybersecurity Technique at Sungrow Americas. “Undertaking builders and utilities more and more acknowledge that digital interfaces and management methods — whereas enabling innovation — additionally introduce new concerns for cybersecurity and grid reliability.
Sungrow North America as a matter of coverage doesn’t import any knowledge or communications expertise with its energy inverters and battery methods.
Benefit Controls CEO Tom Kuster emphasised the industrial attraction of a U.S.-produced system of cybersecure controls that may assist builders keep away from fragmented or advert hoc management options.
“This partnership represents a big step ahead in our mission to supply built-in, high-performance options that drive enterprise worth, peace-of-mind, and incremental income alternative to our shoppers,” he mentioned.
“Benefit is worked up to develop our confirmed, safe Vitality Administration System (EMS) with Sungrow’s cutting-edge battery expertise. We stay up for offering invaluable integration, commissioning and repair assist that’s important to the profitable deployment of those crucial grid belongings.”
Benefit’s management platform contains options to assist grid interoperability, NERC/CIP compliance and real-time monitoring. The system has already been deployed in dozens of PV, storage and hybrid installations throughout the area.
The joint answer is offered now and is suitable with Sungrow’s full vary of PV inverter and battery vitality storage methods within the North American market.
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