中國儲能網(wǎng)訊：根據(jù)行業(yè)媒體Greentech Media報道， S＆C電氣公司決定將退出儲能開發(fā)業(yè)務，專注于微電網(wǎng)。而該公司在生產(chǎn)存儲系統(tǒng)（如逆變器）方面已有10多年的歷史。
S＆C公司在2006年部署了第一個電池系統(tǒng)。但是由于電池行業(yè)對電池生產(chǎn)速度和數(shù)量猛增，該公司由于產(chǎn)能問題無法大規(guī)模地生產(chǎn)電池。
該公司專注于微電網(wǎng)開發(fā)和智能開關組件，2017年它幫助電力部門避免了大量的客戶中斷時間。美國勞倫斯伯克利國家實驗室（Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory）的研究顯示，電力中斷對于美國消費者來說是一筆巨大的開支，對于工業(yè)和商業(yè)部門而言尤其如此。
隨著公用事業(yè)規(guī)模的儲能部署迅速增長，電池生產(chǎn)正朝著特斯拉公司及其Gigafactory的方向發(fā)展。特斯拉公司計劃生產(chǎn)每年35吉瓦時的鋰離子電池，其產(chǎn)量幾乎與全球其他電池產(chǎn)量相當。
S＆C公司業(yè)務發(fā)展高級總監(jiān)David Chiesa表示：“大批量生產(chǎn)電池不是S＆C所擅長的業(yè)務。”
與其相反，S＆C公司將專注于智能電網(wǎng)產(chǎn)品和微電網(wǎng)項目。該公司對減少電力中斷特別感興趣。美國勞倫斯伯克利國家實驗室估計每年大量的電力中斷造成美國經(jīng)濟損失約為790億美元。98％的電力中斷都影響了商業(yè)和工業(yè)用戶的業(yè)務運行。
S＆C美國公司總裁邁克?埃德蒙茲（Mike Edmonds）在日前發(fā)布的公告中表示，“電力中斷對各種規(guī)模客戶的影響成為了人們在2017年關注的焦點”。
S＆C公司對250多家能源管理公司的“商業(yè)和工業(yè)電力可靠性狀況”進行了調查，發(fā)現(xiàn)25％的企業(yè)每個月至少遭遇一次電力中斷事件。此外，S＆C公司的調查研究表明，71％的商業(yè)和工業(yè)客戶已經(jīng)擁有或開發(fā)替代能源的計劃。（中國儲能網(wǎng)獨家編譯，轉載請注明來源）
原文如下：
S&C Electric to exit storage business
Author
Robert Walton @TeamWetDog
Published
Jan. 29, 2018
?After more than a decade producing storage systems, such as invertors, S&C Electric will exit the storage development business to focus on microgrids, Greentech Media reports.
?S&C deployed its first battery system in 2006. But since thenthe rate and volume of battery production in the industry has skyrocketed, and the company says that kind of volume was never its strong suit.
?The company focuses on microgrid development and smart switching components, saying last year it helped utilities avoid more than 2.4 billion customer-outage minutes. Outages are significant expense for United States consumers, but particularly for the industrial and commercial sectors, according to research by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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Dive Insight:
With utility-scale energy storage rapidly growing, battery production is trending in the direction of Tesla and its Gigafactory. The company has plans to produce 35 GWh/year of lithium-ion battery cells — a volume the company boasts is almost as much as the rest of the entire world’s battery production combined.
"That high-volume manufacturing game has never really been what S&C is great at," David Chiesa, senior director of business development at S&C, told GTM.
Instead, S&C will focus on smart grid products and microgrid projects. The company is particularly interested in reducing power outages, which Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory estimates cost the U.S. economy approximately $79 billion a year. And the overwhelming portion of that, 98%, affects commercial and industrial customers.
Mike Edmonds, president of S&C's U.S. business, said in an announcement last week that 2017 "shined a spotlight on the impact power outages have on customers of all sizes."
S&C surveyed more than 250 energy managers for its “State of Commercial & Industrial Power Reliability” report, and found 25% of companies experience power outages at least once a month. S&C's research also showed 71% of commercial and industrial customers own or plan to develop alternative energy sources.
