IPC ADVANCES GRID POWER STORAGE

Ideal Power Converters Achieves Key Certification for Grid Storage Battery Converter; Higher efficiency and lower installed cost of storage expected to result

February 6, 2013 (Ideal Power Converters)

“…[The] Ideal Power Converters (IPC)…30kW Battery Converter has…[won UL1741 certification for safety and grid compatibility. The distributed generation technology…supplies power to the electric grid…

“IPC has invented and patented indirect Energy Packet Switching™ topology that uses a standard lightweight hardware design and embedded application-specific software to serve the fragmented multi-billion dollar power conversion market…”

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“IPC’s initial focus is on photovoltaic (PV), grid storage, and electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure applications…[The] Battery Converter provides both battery charging and inverter functions…[For] grid-storage applications [it could provide] commercial peak demand reduction, utility load shifting, buffer storage for EV fast charging, and bi-directional EV charging…

“IPC’s 30kW Battery Converter weighs only 97lbs, much less than the weight of conventional bi-directional battery chargers…reducing shipping and installation costs by up to 90 percent. It is built on the same Universal Power Converter Platform™ as the Company’s initial PV inverter product…[and] provides greater than 96 percent charging and inverter efficiency on average…”

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