HEILA TECHNOLOGIES INC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: J201-CSO1

Description

Microgrids are being used today in non-defense applications by energy utilities, as well as residential, commercial, and industrial users to help ensure energy availability, improve efficiency, and provide energy resilience. Heila Technologies, a MIT-born startup, has developed a distributed control platform - called Heila IQ® - that simplifies microgrid installation, operation, and optimization. The Heila IQ® Platform offers energy resiliency, efficiency, scalability and cyber security to microgrids. It makes it easy to connect solar arrays, batteries, fuel cells and other distributed energy resources from multiple vendors to grow self-managing microgrids. The system has been tested successfully during the 2017, 2018, and 2019 wildfire seasons in California, where it successfully kept our demonstration site in Sonoma (CA) operational for several days during the frequent power outages affecting the region. The platform has already been deployed successfully by several customers generating revenues of $1.2m in 2019. To determine the technical feasibility of the Heila IQ® Platform for defense applications, Heila is willing to meet AF potential customers to discuss potential AF applications. Initial contact points are to be found within the Advanced Power Technology Office (APTO) of the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) and the Air Force Civil Engineering Center (AFCEC).