Russelectric, A Siemens Business, highlights its Advanced Microgrid Controls Solution, an integrated hardware and software platform designed to optimize facility power management and enhance resiliency in critical sectors. This comprehensive solution may present significant benefits, including energy cost reduction, carbon footprint minimization, and improved business continuity during grid outages.
The Advanced Microgrid Controls Solution is a modular, scalable, and seamless integration of hardware and software components. At its core, the system utilizes Russelectric’s transfer switches, switchgear, and power controllers to provide comprehensive integration of a facility’s onsite demand and generation assets. The solution connects, controls, and optimizes facility generation assets such as generators, battery back-up, photovoltaic arrays, and loads, delivering benefits from a wide range of distributed energy resource (DER) technologies.
Ideal for data centers, Russelectric’s Advanced Microgrid Controls Solution improves business continuity during grid outages through dynamic islanding capabilities, fast and reliable decoupling, automatic black start of backup generators, and seamless grid resynchronization. Additionally, the Advanced Microgrid Controls Solution helps reduce energy costs and minimize carbon footprint while improving facility power quality.
Expertise and Support
With over 50 years of experience in microgrid control installations, Russelectric offers comprehensive support throughout the project lifecycle. This includes engineering and design assistance, project management, manufacturing, testing, installation and commissioning, and 24-hour factory field service. The company backs its solutions with an industry-leading 2-year complete warranty, ensuring reliable performance and customer satisfaction.
Holistic Approach to Microgrids
Russelectric offers a range of products, including individual components such as switchgear, integrated options that combine switchgear with microgrid controllers, and complete turnkey microgrid solutions available through Energy as a Service agreements. This diverse product portfolio positions Russelectric as a single source for all microgrid requirements, regardless of the project’s scale or complexity.
About Russelectric
Founded in 1955, Russelectric®, A Siemens Business, provides high-integrity power control solutions for mission critical applications in healthcare, information technology, telecommunication, water treatment, and renewable energy markets. The company maintains vertically integrated manufacturing facilities in Massachusetts and Oklahoma, where it designs and builds a full line of automatic transfer switches, switchgear, and controls. Russelectric products carry the longest and most comprehensive warranty in the industry and are backed by a team of expert factory-direct field service engineers. To learn more about Russelectric products and the company’s commitment to customer satisfaction, visit www.russelectric.com, call (781) 749-6000, or email info@russelectric.com.
About Siemens
Siemens Smart Infrastructure (SI) is shaping the market for intelligent, adaptive infrastructure for today and the future. It addresses the pressing challenges of urbanization and climate change by connecting energy systems, buildings, and industries. SI provides customers with a comprehensive end-to-end portfolio from a single source – with products, systems, solutions, and services from point-of-power generation all the way to consumption. With an increasingly digitalized ecosystem, it helps customers thrive and communities progress while contributing toward protecting the planet. With around 75,000 employees worldwide, Siemens Smart Infrastructure has its global headquarters in Zug, Switzerland, and its U.S. corporate headquarters in Peachtree Corners, Georgia, USA.
Siemens Corporation is a U.S. subsidiary of Siemens AG, a leading technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, transport, and healthcare. From more resource-efficient factories, resilient supply chains, and smarter buildings and grids, to cleaner and more comfortable transportation as well as advanced healthcare, the company creates technology with purpose, adding real value for customers. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers its customers to transform their industries and markets, helping them to transform the everyday for billions of people. Siemens also owns a majority stake in the publicly listed company Siemens Healthineers, a global leading medical technology provider shaping the future of healthcare. In addition, Siemens holds a minority stake in Siemens Energy, a global leader in the transmission and generation of electrical power. In fiscal 2023, which ended on September 30, 2023, the Siemens Group USA generated revenue of $19.9 billion and employs approximately 45,000 people serving customers in all 50 states and Puerto Rico.
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