POWER ON DEMAND

Windtamer Corporation announces the installation of its first Power On Demand Energy Storage and Power Management System
February 7, 2011 (Windtamer Corporation)

"WindTamer Corporation…[announced] 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."

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"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…Each Power on Demand system is custom designed by WindTamer’s engineers…to best utilize the resources at the customer’s location."

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"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…[S]ome of the larger Power on Demand systems in the sales pipeline will be priced in the mid-to-high six figures."