IEEE symposium
June 2016
Challenge of new technology
Home Energy System
Grid Energy Storage
Fuel
Cells
• DER (Distributed Energy
Resources): Growing
diversity of energy
sources and storage
Switch & Power
Electronics
Distributed
Generation
• Emerging bottom-up
electrification
• New demands for energy:
Electric vehicles, IoT’s
smart devices
Distributed
Generation
Electric Vehicles (EV)
Monitoring,
Communications
& Control
Energy Storage
Microturbine
Goal of DER is unachievable with current
Solantro
• Connection between a
smart grid and the
internet
cost structures
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Differentiation blocks standardization
Issues with status quo:
• Vendors should not differentiate on essential features that need to
be common, if market is to scale
• Misplaced differentiation causes unneeded complexity
• Complexity raises cost, decreases reliability, blocks scale
Failure to standardize in DER solutions will block cost reductions
needed to increase scale
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The need for open standards
Objective:
• Facilitate proper differentiation
Methodology:
• Identify what is common
• Publish open standards for the common
• Deliver purpose built solutions that cover the common
and also support useful differentiation
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Solantro’s approach
Pu r p ose b u i lt ch i p s et u s i n g d i gi t al p o w e r p r o ce ssor (d P2 ) t e ch n o lo gy
Complete power systems reference designs and development tools, enabling
customers to deploy differentiated products with:
• Highest Performance
• Best Reliability
• Lowest BOM Cost
• Shortest Time to market
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Portability of value of dP2 chipset
Digital Power Processing (dP2) chipset and development platforms
DC Power
Converters
Battery
Inverters
Fault
Detect
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PV
Inverters
(blades,
micro,
string)
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VAR Comp
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Applications needing open standards
• DC and AC power systems (PV, battery) for residential
applications
• Hybrid systems for commercial applications
• Nano-grids and micro-grids
• Electric vehicles
• Grids of nano- & micro-grids
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Enabling future generation of DER solutions
Electric
Vehicles
AC/DC hybrid
electrical system
Grid-tied and/or off grid
nano-grid for residential,
industrial and commercial
applications
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The future:
πoT (PioT)
Power is delivered by a network of power and
information exchanging things
Smart modules
Nano-grids
Micro-grids
THINGS OF
POWER
Power distribution
real-time power conversion and
delivery system
Communication and
control interconnect
(gateway)
Smart phone
Monitoring station
Data centers
INTERNET
OF THINGS
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Data transmission
πoT: the network is the grid
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Summary
• Cost reduction is needed for the DER* vision
• Current DER has complex, proprietary/closed, expensive, nonscalable solutions
• Standardization will enable economically efficient approaches
• Solantro is expanding its OEM/ODM partnerships to develop purpose
built integrated circuits that make the common elements standard
and support useful differentiation
*DER: Distributed Energy Resources
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