On Tuesday the 19th of October, our managing director of PowerTec, Michael Jansen, was interviewed by Rose Jacobs from Kalkine TV to discuss PowerTec’s role in the Australian power grid…
On the 12th of August 2021 PowerTec successfully tested the no-break grid-parallel UPS function with the PowerCache Battery Energy Storage System, as mains power was lost at a food factory…
PowerTec designed and manufactured Australia’s first pole-mounted Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS). The two systems in Melbourne’s Bayside suburbs Highett and Blackrock, have been in Business-as-Usual network operation for about…
On the 25th June, PowerTec brought together some of the key players in the energy industry to officially unveil the PowerCache® Battery/Stabiliser – Advanced Microgrid “In a Box”. The PowerCache®…
The PowerTec PowerCache EV charging buffer battery supporting the Chargefox ultra-fast chargers in Goulburn is making its money these days. Charging events are frequent, and the battery is in heavy…
The PowerTec PowerCache® grid-side community batteries, pole-mounted in United Energy’s distribution network at two Melbourne Bayside locations feature in Energy Networks Australia’s new Network Innovation Report 2021 (https://lnkd.in/dQWyxKg). The community batteries have shown to…
The Budget service station must have been the only one able to sell petrol in Goulburn last night: At 10:30 pm powergrid consumers in the area lost supply. The PowerTec PowerCache® system at…
What do you do when you have two PowerTec battery storage systems sitting in your workshop? – You connect them together and make your own half megawatt electricity grid! (Microgrid…
Come and recharge your batteries along the spectacular Great Ocean Road! In time for the summer holidays, the PowerTec PowerCache® battery energy storage system (BESS) at No 1, Great Ocean Road, Torquay has transitioned from…
Power Technology Engineered Solutions Pty. Ltd, a global leader in end-to-end storage solutions, delivered its second EV-charging station battery for Australia’s biggest and fastest growing public EV charging network owner,…
PowerTec, on the 29/4/2020, delivered its first of a fleet of EV-charging station batteries for Australia’s biggest and fastest growing public EV charging network owner, Chargefox. The 250kVA / 270kWh…
On 11/02/2020, United Energy, a Victorian Distribution Network Service Provider and PowerTec, in an Australian first, have commissioned the first of two prototype Pole-mounted Grid Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)…
Chargefox, Australia’s biggest and fastest growing public EV charging network, has partnered with PowerTec, the grid energy storage and microgrid control specialist, to design, build and operate a fleet of…
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Mooroolbark mini grid’s 22h #offgrid operation proves sharing stored renewable energy through the network alleviates power outages for communities: On Feb. 27th, the small residential community in Melbourne’s outer east…
The University of Adelaide team (from left): Gabriel Haines, Alex Lloyd, Assoc. Prof. Nesimi Ertugrul (all UoA, team member Graeme Bell missing), and Michael Jansen (PowerTec), after concluding the joint…
Example of #IoT bridging the gap between utility power distribution and distributed energy systems: A PaDECS® IoT-controller/gateway (same as used in homes) monitoring a High Voltage Regulator and integrating it…
Following thorough testing, the AESKB (Australian Energy Storage Knowledge Base) Grid Stabilising Battery Energy Storage & Research System leaves PowerTec’s Bayswater workshop. After full-load testing on SA Power Network’s network…
Teaming up at the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) A-Lab to work on Network Security and Reliability in a future NEM, dominated by renewables, and incentivising non-traditional generation sources to…
Power Technology Engineered Solutions has been awarded an order by AusNet Services to provide the Mini Grid Stabilisation System (Community level battery, inverter, on-grid/island transfer system and stabilisation control) for…