• Charge CCCV (C4V) selected in U.S. Department of Energy Project focused on solar powered hybrid system for grid stabilization
  •  The project is led by Binghamton University and includes parties like New York Power Authority and National Renewable Energy Laboratory, BNL
  •  C4V to provide lithium-ion battery for the project

Jan 4th, 2021, C4V is pleased to announce that partner it has been selected to participate in a United States Government project for the Department of Energy (DOE) focused on grid stabilization. 

The project is to develop a two-stage solar plant control framework that will enable the coordination of multiple solar plants with generation uncertainty and enhance grid stability through grid-forming inverter controls which includes battery storage. To facilitate the high penetration of renewable generation into bulk power systems, the team will develop an Asynchronous Distributed and Adaptive Parameter Tuning (ADAPT) framework for hybrid solar power plants. The technology developed will enable grid services from curtailable solar and energy storage systems provided by C4V via grid-forming inverters. 

The team will rely on state-of-the-art technologies, such as distributed control, dynamic state estimation, multi-agent reinforcement learning, distributed fault management, and GPU-parallel grid simulation. The framework will be demonstrated at a 1 megawatt hybrid solar power plant controlled by grid-forming inverters at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and through the use of a hardware-in-the-loop system with 70% renewable penetration that will demonstrate the scalability and replicability of the proposed controls at New York Power Authority.

The project is led by Binghamton University - State University of New York, in collaboration with Stony Brook University, Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), New York Power Authority (NYPA), and Charge CCCV LLC (C4V). C4V currently developing a 1.2GWh manufacturing plant under iM3NY in Endicott, New York and would aim to supply battery from iM3NY.
 

C4V President Shailesh Upreti commented: “We are very excited to be selected in another US Government project and being the sole partner providing cutting edge li-ion battery technology immensely favourable to renewable energy adoption.  We look forward to working with our partners to demonstrate the agility and robustness of our BMLMP technology for the grid stabilization.”

Dr. Ziang (John) Zhang, Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Binghamton Univeristy, is the Principal Investigator of the project. He says, “C4V is a leading lithium ion battery technilogy company and has developed a long cycle life BMLMP battery technology that could be a perfect match for renewable energy integration. We have previously used their batteries for another Solar-Storage project and quite excited to extand the usability of this technology in a much larger project.”

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