By Greentech Lead Team: S&C Electric Company, a smart
grid solutions provider, is planning to double the manufacturing capacities of
its power quality products, which include energy storage integration solutions,
reactive compensation systems by expanding its engineering and production
facilities in Franklin, Wis.
The expansion will allow S&C to support demand for
solutions to a range of challenges facing today’s power grids. The facility is
expected to open on August 1st.
“S&C’s power quality products are used to
implement the latest smart grid technology which improves the reliability,
capacity, and efficiency of electric power grids. This is of heightened
importance as communities worldwide work to integrate disruptive new
technologies like renewable energy sources and electric vehicles to the
grid,” said Jim Sember, vice president, Power Quality Products, S&C.
Power solutions are needed to help integrate these
sources and are often required to meet grid interconnection needs. S&C’s
compensation solutions help renewable energy plant owners and operators
optimize renewable energy production, avoid penalties and maximize return on
investment. The stored-energy systems also protect customers against power
outages and enables renewable energy to be optimized on the grid.
S&C‘s solutions help keep
the grid stable and reliable for the consumers and businesses that depend on
it, and better positions utilities to meet energy demands of the future.
“As the grid becomes increasingly complex, S&C’s
power quality solutions are vital to allow renewable energy plants to comply
with interconnection requirements as well as to enable utilities to manage
intermittency issues associated with renewables,” Sember added.
Recently, S&C and NXP Semiconductors announced a
program to
develop and incorporate advanced integrated circuits that will provide enhanced
security for products used in smart grid applications.