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Posted on October 23, 2021November 5, 2021 by Karl Blau — Leave a comment

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

Posted on July 11, 2021July 11, 2021 by Karl Blau — Leave a comment

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.