罗切斯特，纽约，2011年2月7日/新华美通/ - WindTamer公司（“WindTamer”或“公司”）（场外交易公告牌：WNDT）今天宣布，其第一台Power on Demand储能电源管理系统已在先进玻璃工业公司安装并运营。该系统旨在降低的能源需求高峰。先进玻璃工业公司在纽约州罗切斯特市拥有35000平方英尺的工厂，是世界上最大的精密加工成型光学玻璃毛坯的供应商。
Power on Demand系统电源在先进玻璃工业公司的工厂集成了一台WindTamer 8.0GT风力发电机、3kw太阳能、182kWh容量的储能电池、以及超过100千瓦的配电设备。该系统架构的开发是以抵消需求高峰的峰值德方式降低能源成本。可再生能源发电设施提供了工厂负载及储能设备所需的额外电力，这些电力足以应对高峰需求。
Power on Demand系统所用的何种储能电池并未披露。
Innovative System Will Utilize Wind and Solar Energy & Proprietary Smart Monitoring Technology to Lower Peak Power Demand and Reduce Energy Costs
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Feb. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- WindTamer Corporation ("WindTamer" or the "Company") (OTC Bulletin Board: WNDT) announced today that its first Power on Demand energy storage and power management system, designed to lower peak energy demand, is now installed and operational at Advanced Glass Industries. Advanced Glass Industries operates a 35,000 square-foot facility in Rochester, New York and is one of the world's largest suppliers of precision machined and molded optical glass blanks.
Together with WindTamer's mobile Renewable Energy Trailer developed for military applications, the commissioning of the first Power on Demand system extends WindTamer's reach into the rapidly developing energy storage and power management sector and also marks the Company's increasing utilization of solar energy in its mix of product offerings.
Power on Demand is a proprietary patent-pending system that is designed to utilize energy inputs from multiple sources together with a custom-designed battery storage bank to reduce grid demand and provide power when customer loads are high, thereby smoothing power demand on the grid and lowering electricity costs to the customer. The energy can be generated from renewable sources such as wind and solar and also from fuel cells and the grid itself, depending on the available energy resources at a given site. Each Power on Demand system is custom designed by WindTamer's engineers with options to blend in renewable energy inputs to best utilize the resources at the customer's location.
The system is designed to include a proprietary 'smart monitoring' technology developed by WindTamer that, among other things, monitors the power usage of the site in real-time and determines when to release energy from the battery system so as to optimize the battery life and maximize the value of the overall system to the customer.
The Power on Demand system designed for and operating at Advanced Glass Industries' manufacturing facility integrates one WindTamer 8.0GT wind turbine, 3Kw of solar energy, 182kWh of usable energy storage and more than 100kW of power distribution capability. The system architecture was developed to reduce peak demand by offsetting peak energy costs. Renewable energy sources provide supplemental power to building loads and battery-based energy storage was implemented to handle peak loads that require additional power.
Mark Matthews, WindTamer's Vice President of Sales and Marketing and one of the designers of the Power on Demand system, said that, "We are extremely pleased to have installed and commissioned our first Power on Demand system, and we are especially excited about the impact this will have on WindTamer's sales prospects going forward. By having this system operating at a customer facility we are now in a position to demonstrate in a real-world setting the superior return on investment Power on Demand can provide for both wind and solar installations."
Mr. Matthews added that, "Our engineering team has also done an excellent job of keeping the Power on Demand system modular, scalable and flexible so that we will be able to offer a solution that accepts renewable energy inputs based on the available renewable resources at a given location and then customize the system for optimal savings."
WindTamer's CEO William Schmitz said, "It would be difficult to overestimate the significance of the commissioning of this system for our Company and its shareholders. As I have previously stated, we see Power on Demand as a major driver of our growth in 2011 and beyond. This product expands our potential customer base exponentially because it dramatically reduces the payback period to the customer, which makes Power on Demand an extremely attractive value proposition to a much wider variety of large energy users who deal with peak usage pricing."
Mr. Schmitz added that he expects some of the larger Power on Demand systems in the sales pipeline will be priced in the mid-to-high six figures.