In March, our president and CTO, Chris Rohaly, and our operations director, Lamar Sledge, had the opportunity to travel to Texas and tour ELM’s microgrid factory.
We’re partners with ELM and install their systems for our microgrid projects. Visiting their facility and seeing them in action was a real treat. Here is a little virtual tour of the facility.
Upon arrival, we walked into the lobby and found two big screens on the wall. This showed live-streamed details from the highlighted system of the day.
Off the lobby was a control room with more big screens. These pictured a map with all ELM installation locations across the country and a forecast of the weather the installations are experiencing. If a system runs into issues, an alarm panel brings immediate attention to system alerts and failures. This allows the team onsite in the control room to carry out remote diagnostic troubleshooting with impressive speed.
After our stop in the control room, we moved into the factory itself. Our ELM host, Tim Puckett, gave us the tour and explained the 125,000 sq ft facility, which opened last year.
Being built in the facility are systems like the one on the right, which is a pair of second-generation battery cabinets in process. Each cabinet houses almost 70 kWh hours of battery capacity. These ELM systems are liquid-cooled with a custom-designed cooling unit.
The entire facility was fascinating to visit and it was impressive to see our partners at work creating these power systems. Thank you to ELM for hosting us!
If you have any questions about microgrids or would like to learn more about their potential business and commercial use cases, contact us at info@solargai.com. We are happy to help!
