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KenMcCauley –
President & CEO
MartinBecker-
Chief Technology Officer
Darren Hammell –
Chief Strategy Officer
Fal Dieso –
Director of Marketing
Paul Heavener –
Director of Quality Assurance
Matt Rosner –
Chief Financial Officer
and Africa have become
par ticularly
fer tile
areas in recent years.
That said, opportunities
in more developed areas
of North America have
increased thanks to the
lower cost of solar and
energy storage.
And in its role as an
advanced technology/
equipment provider,
Princeton
Power
Systems will typically
sell
its
power
converters, controls
and batteries to
systems integrators
like Lockheed Martin,
who will then sell to the end customer while
providing the financing for the systems while also
operating and maintaining them.
“One of the things
that does differentiate
us is we have a lot of
experience with a lot of
the different and new
battery technologies
that areout there, sowe
can talk to the customer
and explain what we
think the best solution is
for them,” said Darren
Hammell, the company’s
co-founder/chief strategy officer, “and then we can
point to projects we have in the ground using those
batteries, which is very rare.
“Because there aren’t
that many systems out
there.”
Speaking of projects,
thecompanycompleted
a
commercial-scale
micro-grid
system
on Alcatraz Island in
2010 that allowed the
island to wean off its
dependence on coal
and diesel fuel as power sources.
“The National Park Service is excited about
making this switch to solar power on Alcatraz,”
said Alexandra Picavet, an NPS public affairs
officer. “It has been one of the most challenging
and rewarding goals to meet in striving for a more
sustainable operation in the Golden Gate National
Recreation Area.”
More
recently,
Princeton
Power
Systems’
BIGI-250
energy management
platform was used
on the five-megawatt
micro-grid project that
went into use in June
on an island off the
West African coast.
And it was chosen
by the Concurrent
Technologies
Corporation in July to
design the first fleet of
bidirectional
electric
