Badger Technology Group, LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: AF211-CSO1

Description

Badger Technology is proposing an innovative Hybrid Energy Storage Solution to optimize microgrids for military operations.  HESS includes hybrid storage (SHAD®) and energy management (InMS®) technologies to embrace power electronics, integrated hardware/software, control algorithms and customized energy storage. Electrical power grids are undergoing substantial structural and operational changes, driven by increased intermittent renewable energy generation from Wind and Photo Voltaics (PV), increasing electricity consumption, evolving production of renewable energy systems, demand, aging grids, and goal to decrease fuel consumption and carbon emissions. Badger Tech proposes an integrated Hybrid Energy Storage Solution (HESS) based on combining ultracapacitors (high power, fast response), batteries (high energy density, long term response) along with thin film PV systems and an Intelligent Node Management system to optimize energy efficiency and  microgrid asset life, while ensuring high quality power supply to critical loads on a military base. SHAD® is the hybrid energy storage product based on flexible hardware/software enabling a combination of multiple storage technologies (batteries, ultracapacitors) optimized for a specific microgrid. HESS is an ultra fast response, high power solution with energy backup, avoiding oversizing due to decoupling power. It is charged when energy is cheaper or load is low, and discharged when energy is more expensive or when the consumption is high. HESS enables peak shaving after reaching a predefined output power limit to relieve stress on a substation.