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Happy 2022!
Author: Karl Blau
Team BlauBox 10/21
… prepared for POC!
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.
Sustainability for the sake of future generations
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.
Salt-based energy storage
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:
Residential and commercial buildings: time-shifting use of locally generated renewable energy to maximize self-consumption of electricity, uninterruptible power supply, “power boost” to reduce electricity contract rates
Utility grids: peak shaving, time-shifted power supply from renewables, smart grid management support
Renewable energy parks: optimizing power supply by enabling time-shifted use of generated energy
Transmission grids: Grid frequency regulation, time-shifted provision of electricity
grid-connected and off-grid micro-grid applications
The use of salt-based energy sources brings a number of advantages:
Free of toxic material and 100% Recyclable
NO dangerous materials
NO risk of explosion even in presence of external fire
NO gassing or emission
NO valuable resalable materials
NO fire/water flood reaction
Constant performance at -40 °C to + 60°C
Cycling Capability > 4.500 cycles (80% DoD)
Integrated system (BMS) for monitoring, diagnostics and data logging
Up to 80% reduction in footprint and 3 times in weight than conventional Energy-Storage
Zero self-discharge when stored, at any state of charge
Scalable module in parallel
No memory effect
Team Blau Group is celebrating 40 years of SMA! 10/21
We offer special promotion for the home inverters this month with 10 Years warranty included !
Goods from port of Colombo now in stock 08/21
New arrival now ready for sales!
In order to maintain supply from our stocks in Battaramulla we regularly import fresh inverters directly from SMA Germany. The inverters from harbor have arrived Friday in Battaramulla:
SMA Sunnyboy PV Inverter 1.5 / 3.0/4.0/6.0
SMA Sunny Tripower Core 1 (50-40)
SMA Sunny Tripower 20000 TL and 25000 TL
And many more ….
Make sure you do not miss any of these and contact our team (+94 70 656 2111) for more details!
Stay in Battaramulla
Next few months …
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.
Ministries, authorities and industry
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.
Product lines for inverters
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.
Domestic
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.
Business
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 Scale
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.
Further sustainable German technology for the Sri Lankan market
Waste to Energy [already in portfolio]
Chillers with environmentally friendly refrigeration [already in portfolio]
Power to Gas [as soon as market-relevant results are achieved]
Redox flow [as soon as market-relevant results are achieved]
Other new methods and technologies [we are monitoring R&D and the market].
Team Blau visit at SMA Headquarters 06/21
Cora, Bastian and Britta at SMA (Niestetal, Germany)
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.
Processes and operations, manufacturing and management …
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 .
Of course the total production site is covered with solar panels
SMA Inverters installed care for perfect connection on or off the grid
Founded in 1981 SMA is celebrating the 40th anniversary this year!
AHK Trade Mission to Sri Lanka 06/21
Energy efficiency and self-sufficiency in industry
The business trip to Sri Lanka will take place from June 2 to June 4. Team Blau Group will present itself and its solutions to the Sri Lankan Ministry of Power as well as Ministry of Solar, Wind and Hydro Power Generation Projects Development, the Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority (SLSEA), the Central Environmental Authority (CEA) and industrial companies.
Virtual business trip
Team Blau Group uses this great opportunity to intensify contacts and cooperation with Sri Lankan government, authorities and industry.
Homepage Go Live 03/21
GO LIVE of our re-designed website
So now you have an even more smooth and easy access to you sustainable energy future!
Arrival of fresh goods in port of Colombo 03/21
Arrival of fresh goods in port of Colombo!
In order to maintain supply from our stocks in Battaramulla we regularly import fresh inverters directly from SMA Germany. The latest container has just arrived in Colombo and there are some interesting new devisces in our premises for immediate supply:
SMA Sunnyboy PV Inverter 1.5 / 3.0/4.0/6.0
SMA Sunny Tripower Core 1 (50-40)
SMA Sunny Tripower 20000 TL and 25000 TL
And many more ….
Make sure you do not miss any of these and contact our team (+94 70 656 2111) for more details!
Warehouse in Battaramulla is filled 12/20
Stock in Batteramulla
The warehouse in Batteramulla will first be filled with inverters from SMA. We can now supply our partners and customers with goods on site.
Contact our office and ask for the desired items.
The promise is fulfilled
With the construction of the warehouse, Team Blau Group has fulfilled the promise Karl Blau made to the auditorium of the Sri Lanka Solar Conference: We bring SMA sustainable to Sri Lanka and advise interested parties, supply inverters on site, provide service and repair inverters after setting up our workshop.