Ener1公司宣布他与Russia‘s JSC Mobile GTES (MGTES)签署了一项5年的战略合作协议，考虑制造机遇锂离子电池的不间断电源系统（UPS）。公司官员表示，针对此电力保护设备的初步总容量为27.8MW。将为内部变电站提供一小时的电力保护，包括开关、照明、通信以及其它需求。
Russia‘s JSC Mobile GTES (MGTES)是统一能源系统俄罗斯联邦电网（FGC）的全资子公司。Ener1是一个提供储能技术解决方案的公司。
Ener1 and MGTES previously signed a $40-million energy storage supply contract in November 2010. This new framework agreement follows a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by both companies in March 2011. The purpose of the framework agreement is to set forth the parameters of what is contemplated to be a five-year supply arrangement. The effectiveness of the agreement is contingent upon specific conditions, including the parties negotiating and determining the number of units to be supplied, unit pricing, services to be provided, completion of a feasibility study, board of director approval by both companies, and finalization of other technical specifications.
The contemplated UPS systems are intended to provide near-instantaneous power back-up for FGC's substation equipment to enable a more reliable bulk power transmission system. Coupled with Ener1's battery management system, the UPS systems constitute a crucial element of FGC's 'smart' grid, which will enable electric power production, transmission and consumption to be controlled and optimized in real-time with a view toward ensuring maximum performance. MGTES would handle the on-site delivery, installation and subsequent operation of the UPS systems.
“We are planning to deploy 45 units over two years from western Russia to the country’s Far East,” stated Oleg Bragin, general director, Mobile GTES. “This is a genuinely innovative project that will bring the level of development of the Russian energy industry, as a whole, to a qualitatively new level.”
"We're pleased to be working with FGC and MGTES to provide grid energy storage solutions that we believe offer a quick and highly cost-effective way to address some of the power quality challenges on the company's electric grid," stated Ener1 Chairman and CEO Charles Gassenheimer. "Russia, and other emerging markets, has the opportunity to surpass technologies used elsewhere, because their need to innovate is so essential and their networks are already stretched thin. With more than 800 substations being proposed to receive UPS system upgrades, we believe leveraging the advantages of advanced, lithium-ion batteries for grid energy storage could make smart business sense."
The strategic framework agreement between the two companies was signed during the fifteenth-annual St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, which is one of the world's leading events to bring together prominent government leaders and officials, corporate executives and industry experts to deliberate on key issues of the global economy.
About Ener1, Inc.
Ener1, Inc. is a publicly traded (NASDAQ: HEV) energy storage technology company that develops compact, lithium-ion-powered battery solutions for the transportation, utility grid and industrial electronics markets. Headquartered in New York City, the company has more than 700 employees with manufacturing locations in the United States and Korea. Ener1 also develops commercial fuel cell products and nanotechnology-based materials. For more information, visit Ener1's web site at www.ener1.com.
About Federal Grid Company
Open Joint-Stock Company Federal Grid Company of the Unified Energy System provides unified national electric grid management to the power industry in the Russian Federation. It offers energy transmission services; technical connection services, including services for electric power consumption (delivery), as well as providing actual connection of consumers' electric devices to the electric grid facilities to legal entities and individuals; and technical maintenance and repair of facilities in the unified national electric grid system. The company also invests in and develops the unified energy system.
About Mobile GTES
Joint-stock company Mobile GTES is a wholly owned subsidiary of Federal Grid Company. It was established in 2006 to deploy and operate mobile gas turbine power stations with a view to maintaining the reliability of the Moscow region's power grid at peak hours in the most effective, safe and ecologically pure manner. Mobile GTES was also created to be able to promptly relocate such power plants to remote regions of Russia with inadequate electricity supplies. The company possesses vast experience in commissioning and operating mobile gas turbine power plants and selling capacity and power on the wholesale market.