Foundation Power’s Local Energy Solutions featuring advanced Energy Storage Systems (ESS) offer a more cost-effective and sustainable power solution for our customers versus traditional utility or diesel generator-dependent electricity. Foundation delivers the complete package, including financing, installation, and system monitoring, thus ensuring resilient and reliable energy to business installations. It starts by collecting and analyzing the right data to deliver a solution that is more resilient and provides clean energy while lowering daily energy costs.

Foundation’s advanced battery technology is optimized by the DirectCore™ Energy Management System (EMS) that automates the charging and discharging of locally-produced clean energy to deliver a safe and reliable solution. Our open system capability brings underdeveloped regions the ability to control new or existing energy assets in real-time. The DirectCore™ EMS provides continuous monitoring and control of the solar field or wind farm as well as batteries or diesel generators to deliver consistent energy demand to any critical or remote facility.

On the solar side, we have adopted the same approach that is used in the ESS battery arrays to monitor and manage down to each panel. If any panel starts to degrade or fail (or is subject to shading), the other panels in its string continue to operate without being limited by the problem panel, while the problem panel identifies itself to the local control system. The problem panel can be replaced with any other manufacturer’s panel – resulting in a heterogeneous grouping of panels all working together. Without a specialized solar panel interconnect and control technology, different manufacturers’ panels can’t work together. We solve this problem and eliminate the “Christmas tree light” problem – if one panel fails, the others continue to generate power. Our capability reduces supply risk should an original manufacturer’s product become unavailable – a frequent phenomenon in solar panels.