IEEE symposium

June 2016

Solantro 2

Challenge of new technology

• DER (Distributed Energy Resources): Growing diversity of energy sources and storage

• Emerging bottom-up electrification

• New demands for energy: Electric vehicles, IoT’s smart devices

• Connection between a smart grid and the internet

Goal of DER is unachievable with current cost structures

Grid Energy Storage

Microturbine

Energy Storage Monitoring,

Communications

& Control

Switch & Power

Electronics

Distributed

Generation

Fuel

Cells

Electric Vehicles (EV)

Home Energy System

Distributed

Generation

Solantro 3

Differentiation blocks standardization

Issues with status quo: • Vendors should not differentiate on essential features that need to

be common, if market is to scale

• Misplaced differentiation causes unneeded complexity

• Complexity raises cost, decreases reliability, blocks scale

Failure to standardize in DER solutions will block cost reductions needed to increase scale

Solantro 4

The need for open standards

Objective:

• Facilitate proper differentiation

Methodology:

• Identify what is common

• Publish open standards for the common

• Deliver purpose built solutions that cover the common and also support useful differentiation

Purpose built chipset using digital power processor (dP2) technology

Complete power systems reference designs and development tools, enabling

customers to deploy differentiated products with:

• Highest Performance

• Best Reliability

• Lowest BOM Cost

• Shortest Time to market

Solantro 5

Solantro’s approach

Solantro 6

Portability of value of dP2 chipset

Digital Power Processing (dP2) chipset and development platforms

Solantro

DC Power Converters

Fault Detect

VAR Comp

PV Inverters

(blades, micro, string)

Battery Inverters

Solantro 7

Applications needing open standards

• DC and AC power systems (PV, battery) for residential applications

• Hybrid systems for commercial applications

• Nano-grids and micro-grids

• Electric vehicles

• Grids of nano- & micro-grids

8

Enabling future generation of DER solutions

Solantro

Electric

Vehicles

Grid-tied and/or off grid

nano-grid for residential,

industrial and commercial

applications

AC/DC hybrid

electrical system

The future: πoT (PioT)

Smart modules

Nano-grids

Micro-grids

Smart phone

Monitoring station

Data centers

Power distribution

Data transmission

πoT: the network is the grid

Communication and

control interconnect

(gateway)

THINGS OF

POWER

INTERNET

OF THINGS

Power is delivered by a network of power and

information exchanging things

real-time power conversion and

delivery system

Solantro 9

Solantro 10

Summary

• Cost reduction is needed for the DER* vision

• Current DER has complex, proprietary/closed, expensive, non-scalable solutions

• Standardization will enable economically efficient approaches

• Solantro is expanding its OEM/ODM partnerships to develop purpose built integrated circuits that make the common elements standard and support useful differentiation

*DER: Distributed Energy Resources