Sally believed innovation was a vital part of moving both technology and customer satisfaction forward. The award for ACE innovation is the result of a focused team effort, where our battery design experts have co operated with our creative application engineers to come up with a solution that allows our battery technology to add so much more value than just energy to the customer.
The ESS market is expected to grow to USD 200-400 billion by 2040 and represents a significant growth opportunity for NorthStar. In light of this global development, and given this partnership’s importance specifically for Springfield, our joint project with City Utilities is very important.
We’re very excited with this opportunity to work with our community partner NorthStar on this pilot project. The opportunity to provide a platform for research that supports renewable integration options for our customers and potentially globally is something everyone at CU is excited about.
As an added differentiator, the NorthStar ACE™ battery monitoring system will be presented as another innovation to monitor the solution and extend battery life in ESS. This makes us a strong candidate on this market.
It is fantastic that our innovation NorthStar ACE™ has already received such recognition. We are finalists both in the category Cloud Services and in BSS/OSS – business support systems and operational support systems for telecom service providers.
Voice and data service is something that many take for granted. But in the end it all comes down to having reliable power. NorthStar ACE™ will give operators and tower companies a powerful solution to gain full visibility and control of their energy storage, without even having to set foot on site. We will see the total cost of ownership reduce dramatically, as NorthStar ACE™ helps prevent most battery failures, thereby increasing network uptime and reducing costs for batteries and related operating expenses.
Until now a battery has been seen as a passive component that is installed and then forgotten. Our NorthStar ACE™ concept is about to change this completely by bringing innovation together with true and tangible customer values and make AGM technology an optimal opex/capex balance for the coming years.