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Power Security for Remote Communications at Fort Irwin

Fort Irwin National Training Center is a major United States military training area in the Mojave Desert. The facility has historically relied on lead acid batteries to provide backup power to mission critical wireless radio transmitters at nine sites. In 2018, Fort Irwin hired Northern Arizona Wind & Sun to design a more reliable off-grid power security solution for remote communications. The solar+SimpliPhi storage system includes 9 solar arrays comprised of 256W PV modules, four PHI 3.4 kWh batteries, a...
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Trailer-Mounted Power Systems For Combat Operations

As the U.S. military continues to engage in enduring and expeditionary conflicts in remote and austere regions of the world, there has been a concerted effort to solve the challenges associated with moving fuel and supplying reliable, secure power for today’s military power-intensive military equipment. Moving fuel to the front lines is incredibly costly -- in both financial terms and in lives. For example, by the end of 2010, the Defense Logistics Agency was moving 40 million gallons of...
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Bringing Energy to the Tactical Edge in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan

The U.S. Army’s “Energy to the Tactical Edge” effort (E2E) kicked off in 2011 to reduce troop reliance on fuel resupply operations by curtailing use of or entirely replacing conventional diesel generators. The Forge Provides Continuous Reliable Power And Eliminates The Need For Fossil Fuels. (Image courtesy of ZeroBase) This effort was inspired not only to contain costs, with the full burdened cost of fuel including air transport, parachute drops and more estimated at $400/gallon, but more importantly to save lives....
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Expeditionary – Marine Corps and U.S. Army

SIMPLIPHI POWER storage technology efficiently and safely stores energy generated from renewable and hybrid distributed power systems to create energy independence and security for the Marine Corps and U.S. Army in the most rugged and harsh regions in the world. SimpliPhi’s proprietary architecture, Battery Management System (BMS) and safe lithium ferrous phosphate (LFP) batteries offer 98% efficiency charge/discharge rates without heat build-up, risk of thermal runaway or cooling requirements. With 5,000+ cycles, the SimpliPhi batteries last longer and outperform all...
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