Year: 2021

Storage is an essential key for the successful implementation of the energy transition to renewable energies. Team Blau GmbH, together with its partners in Europe, has developed a German product that is adaptable to customer needs, modular, scalable, clusterable to provide exactly the energy that is needed. The BlauBox, manufactured in Germany, uses components that have long proven their efficiency and quality. In order to meet the needs of a required solution in the best possible way, the components are optimally matched to each other.

The Team BlauBox is used for sustainable energy storage and can be powered by solar, wind or other renewable or conventionally generated energy. This energy can be used as soon as no renewable source is currently operating, for example when using solar energy during the night.

Sodium-nickel batteries belong to the group of thermal batteries. In 1984, a first multi-kWh prototype was successfully tested in an electric car. Today, however, this type is mainly used as stationary energy storage for the following applications:

The use of salt-based energy sources brings a number of advantages:

Britta and Karl will work on site in Battaramulla. A stay of several months in Sri Lanka is planned. The flight leaves Munich on July 28th – in Sri Lanka we will stay for 10 days in a “Bubble Hotel” in quarantaine. Both are vaccinated but the procedure requires this.

As soon as the quarantine is over, we will move to our domicile in Battaramulla. We will continue the discussions started in the virtual AHK trip in person and push the topic of renewable energy.

Team Blau Gorups SMA inverters as well as FZSoNick batteries and soon panels with German origin are available to the country and our customers.

Team Blau Groups German team was able to add a supply engineer as a technically skilled sales person with decades of experience in the energy~ and air conditioning sector. He will initially support our solar~ and storage projects from Germany. In addition, chillers are among his topics.

“Waste to energy” with German technology is also brought by Team Blau Group. Here we are talking with a waste management company that would like to use this technoligy in the future.

The next step is to hone the product lines for solar systems in terms of organization and sales. Home systems (domestic), commercial systems (rooftop, corporate supply, etc.) and industrial systems will be anchored in three marketing channels.

Together with our partners, we will make SMA as well as FZSoNick known to the population. Team Blau Group will go to the regions and give local presentations with information for the users. All companies interested in installation and assembly of solar systems are potential partners of Team Blau Group. We will offer trainings for them soon.

A broad-based initiative will focus on rooftop and corporate energy supply. We aim to help our customers with the migration from fossil to solar. That includes both auxiliary power supply and complete energy self-sufficiency.

In the projects, we will take a close look at the needs of the customers in each individual case:

• rooftop with feed-in to the grid only
• storage solutions with more possibilities
  • self-supply during the day
  • long term energy security 24/7 from a self-controlled source

Large solar plants will push the energy supply in the country towards “harvesting Sri Lanka’s resources” and gradually reduce the purchase of energy from abroad. The use of storage will be an indispensable part of the solution, ensuring grid stability and supply even at night.

Finally a personal visit in SMA Headquarters! Always good to get to know the partners personally – after all these video conferences. During a great day at SMA all processes, upcoming questions were discussed as well as sensible processes of cooperation defined.

This visit was about to get to know it all and also convey this experience to our customers in Sri Lanka ….
Soon even SMA people themselves will be allowed to travel again and come to Battaramulla to check all possibilities in Sri Lanka and hold trainings for SMA products on site!

Huge production plant of SMA in Niestetal/Germany – impressing!

More than 2.500 people working in this solar park .