ZBB Energy Corporation Announces Order from Oregon State University (OSU) for Zinc Energy Storage System

July 2, 2009 – Vol.14 No.15

ZBB Energy Corporation Announces Order from Oregon State University (OSU) for Zinc Energy Storage System.

The Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based company has received an order for a standard, modular ZESS 50 energy storage unit incorporating ZBB’s new, proprietary, patent pending ZESS POWR PECC (power & energy control center). The ZESS power system will be used on campus at the Wallace Energy Systems and Renewables Facility and will be used in an on grid configuration with simulated wind and hydro electric sources. The ZESS POWR PECC system controls energy and power inputs from multiple power sources and then delivers energy out through an integrated inverter.

The OSU project is supported by the Bonneville Power Authority and Central Lincoln Public Utilities District.

OSU Professor Alex Yokochi, stated “following our own exhaustive review of electrical energy storage systems capable of integration with an electrical grid, and given the performance characteristics we deemed essential (lifetimes in the order of many thousands of deep discharge cycles, rapid kinetics from charging to discharging state, simple scalability in both required power output and stored energy capacity, reasonable efficiency and minimal site requirements) we selected the Zinc Bromide flow cell technology as an excellent match. We expect to use the Zinc Bromide flow cell system to smooth power output excursions from the forecast level in time scales ranging from seconds to multiple hours, such as are frequently found associated with the output of a wind farm to lead to a more ‘dispatchable’ power source. Rather than building our own experimental flow cell battery, we decided to purchase a pre-integrated system from ZBB as a representative example of the technology available in the market today.”

The ZESS 50 regenerative fuel cell is a 50 kWh advanced electrical energy storage device. The ZESS POWR PECC is a hybrid power conversion system that is a modular, flexible and easily configurable unit which supports the integration of any combination of generating sources such as wind, Solar PV, hydro, electric and conventional generator sets, coupled with ZBB’s, ZESS energy storage units to create a designed system configuration, that can be easily expanded for future needs. The ZESS POWR PECC is patent pending.

ZBB Energy Corporation provides clean energy storage solutions based on proprietary zinc rechargeable energy storage technology. (7/1/09)

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ZBB Energy Corporation
http://www.zbbenergy.com

--- ZBB Energy and Eaton Corp. to Co-Share State of Wisconsin Clean Energy Fund Grant.

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