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CLASS OF 2015
WORLD-GENERATION FEBRUARY/MARCH 2015 V.27 #1
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officials to confirm that their firefighters
have been properly trained to handle a fire
in a building with a roof-top solar
installation. Ideally, our clients will conduct
a thorough walk-through of the site with
the fire officials that includes showing them
the exact location of the rapid-disconnect
switch for the solar installation, assuming
one has been installed.
Travelers is also very active in industry
organizations. For example, we are fre-
quently asked to speak to risk managers for
the nation’s schools and universities who
attend International Risk Management
Institute (IRMI) conferences and work
closely with those who influence safety
codes and standards, including the National
Fire Protection Association (NFPA).
ABOUT EILEEN KAUFFMAN
Eileen Kauffman is the leader of
Travelers Renewable Energy Practice,
responsible for coordinating the company’s
five renewable energy businesses.
Travelers Renewable Energy Practice
underwrites risks related to multiple sourc-
es, such as wind, solar, biomass, geother-
mal, hydro, clean technologies, and co-gen-
eration.
Travelers provides solutions for the life
span of a renewable energy business, from
R&D and manufacturing to permanent
operations.
Kauffman began her career at
Travelers in 2006 as an underwriter for
small business.
She was also a Business Development
Director responsible for marketing, plan-
ning and execution across multiple middle
market businesses.
She has more than 20 years experience
in commercial property and casualty under-
writing.
Kauffman studied at Penn State
University. She is an avid cyclist and partici-
pates in two 150 mile rides every year to
raise funds for multiple sclerosis.
enhanced with carbon to extend cycle life
and is used for peak shaving. The battery
collects electricity during the sun’s peak
production hours and discharges in the late
afternoon when the sun is not as strong,
but when power demand spikes. The sec-
ond technology is a lead-acid ultra-capacitor
hybrid system with good power capabilities
that is used for solar smoothing. The bat-
tery collects and stores power and is then
able to distribute it in spurts as clouds pass
over. The project is located near Mesa del
Sol, south of Albuquerque, NM.
• Catalina Island sits 22 miles off the
coast of Long Beach California, and with no
utility tie to the mainland, the island
microgrid was served by Southern California
Edison (SCE) through a combination of six
diesel generators and 1.4 MW of micro-tur-
bines. The diesel generators were deemed to
be high emitters of mono-nitrogen oxide
(NOx) gases by the South Coast Air Quality
Management District, so SCE needed a solu-
tion that would allow the generators to run
more efficiently, and thus reduce NOx emis-
sions on the island. S&C was contracted by
SCE to design, install, and commission a
1-MW PureWave® Storage Management
System that would allow the generators to
efficiently store and release power from the
island’s generators. This fast-responding
automatic controller uses built-in intelligence
to control charging and discharging of sodi-
um-sulfur (NaS) batteries. The batteries pro-
vide large energy output over a long period
of time, and the PureWave System allows the
batteries to serve as both a load and a gener-
ator. The PureWave System can also provide
power to the microgrid (up to the capacity of
the batteries) if there is an issue with a diesel
generator which prevents it from being
brought on-line.
WORLD-GEN: WHERE DOES S&C MANUFAC-
TURE PUREWAVE CES AND PUREWAVE
SMS STORAGE SYSTEMS?
Dan Girard:
We manufacture our
PureWave CES and PureWave SMS storage
EILEEN KAUFFMAN
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DAN GIRARD
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systems at our engineering and production
facility in Franklin, Wisc. This facility sup-
ports S&C’s power quality products, which
include energy storage integration solu-
tions (CES and SMS), reactive compensa-
tion systems applied at renewable energy
plants (DSTATCOM), and extremely fast
uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) for
mission critical power users.
WORLD-GEN: DOES S&C OFFER A COM-
PLETE SUITE OF SERVICES FOR DESIGNING,
DEPLOYING AND MAINTAININGTHESE ENER-
GY STORAGE SYSTEMS?
Dan Girard:
Yes. As a leader in inte-
grating energy storage into the grid, we
draw on real-world expertise to deliver suc-
cessful energy storage projects, from the
earliest stages of project evaluation and
design (including financial assessment), to
construction, system commissioning, life-
cycle maintenance, asset management and
monitoring from our Global Support and
Monitoring Center. Our energy storage sys-
tems use S&C’s field-proven power elec-
tronics technology to provide rapid
response to changing system conditions.
Our team is comprised of different groups
including Analytical Studies, Engineering
Services, Field Services, Laboratory
Services, Project and Construction
Management, Installation Services and
Asset Management, offering a total solution
approach to all areas of energy storage.
ABOUT DAN GIRARD
Dan Girard has over 25 years of techni-
cal and project management experience
working with utilities, large commercial and
industrial customers on various engineer-
ing solutions consisting of power issues
that include design of substations, power
feeders, power factor corrections, new
building electrical layout, and campus lay-
outs. These have included electric utilities,
commercial plants, industrial plants, college
campuses, hospitals, wastewater plants, and
water treatment facilities. Dan received his
BSEE in Electrical Engineering from
Marquette University in 1984.
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