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SunCrate providing mobile power Wednesday, March 10, 2021 4:16 PM
A SunCrate, developed with help from a grant from the Iowa Energy Office, is set up in Ames to test its solar energy collection and distribution capabilities. Photo by Michael Crumb
A Sioux City-based company is harnessing the power of the sun and using portable storage units that can provide power to homes and businesses when a natural disaster strikes, or to supplement the current energy supply when electrical loads are high.
SunCrate was founded by Dolf Ivener after he started thinking about putting solar energy systems on hog confinements. Because of changes made by rural electric cooperatives in how the confinements were metered, he started to look into how to use batteries with the solar energy system. What he came up with was a shipping container with a battery and solar panels inside that can be deployed in a short period of time.
SunCrate providing mobile power Wednesday, March 10, 2021 4:16 PM
A SunCrate, developed with help from a grant from the Iowa Energy Office, is set up in Ames to test its solar energy collection and distribution capabilities. Photo by Michael Crumb
A Sioux City-based company is harnessing the power of the sun and using portable storage units that can provide power to homes and businesses when a natural disaster strikes, or to supplement the current energy supply when electrical loads are high.
SunCrate was founded by Dolf Ivener after he started thinking about putting solar energy systems on hog confinements. Because of changes made by rural electric cooperatives in how the confinements were metered, he started to look into how to use batteries with the solar energy system. What he came up with was a shipping container with a battery and solar panels inside that can be deployed in a short period of time.
Feb 25, 2021
DECORAH, Iowa (AP) So many Decorah residents are putting up solar panels and installing small turbines that Alliant Energy, which serves the city of 7,700 in Winneshiek County, is nearing the limit of how much distributed energy it can host without degrading the quality of electricity in the community.
Rather than say no to more renewable energy, the utility is installing a $2.5 million battery system to store the energy and regulate voltage.
“It can absorb power when there’s too much and then, later in the day, when the sun goes down, we can release that energy and let it flow back onto the system,” said Sarah Martz, manager of distribution engineering at Alliant.
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