Tabuchi Electric and Geli Team Up to Accelerate Residential Solar Market

September 10, 2015 | By Business Wire News

SAN JOSE, Calif.

Tabuchi Electric, a solar-plus-storage manufacturer, and Geli, a software provider for battery storage and microgrids, today announced a partnership that will deliver a residential solar-plus-storage solution designed to enable faster solar market growth. The combination of Geli’s software with Tabuchi’s hardware helps utilities manage distributed solar and additional home energy devices to optimize grid performance. By providing utilities with confidence that they can reliably integrate solar into the grid, the partnership is designed to accelerate residential solar growth.

Tabuchi’s EneTelus Intelligent Battery System (EIBS) residential solar-plus-storage solution is now delivered loaded with Geli’s Energy Operating System software. The combined hardware and software solution connects with solar installations and smart home devices such as smart thermostats and pool pumps to systematically manage energy flow from the home to the grid. The partnership will give utilities far deeper insight into distributed generation and enable them to manage entire fleets of inverters across a service area, implement automated demand response programs and improve operations across programs.

“Tabuchi is partnering with Geli to make their solar-plus-storage solution even more user-friendly,” said Daniel Hill, Tabuchi director of sales and marketing. “The units are already incredibly easy to set up, and now we’re pleased to be able to offer customers the option to control units from the cloud.”

Tabuchi introduced the EIBS to the North American market in July 2015. The system combines an all-in-one inverter with a lithium ion battery that is optimized for reliability, fast payback and simple home installation. Tabuchi’s solution delivers compelling cost performance by reliably reducing peak loads for ten years and up to 5,000 battery cycles.

“We think of energy storage as energy computing. Geli provides the smart software and Tabuchi provides the best-in-class hardware,” said Andrew Tanner, vice president of business development at Geli. “Together we’re helping utilities forge ahead with the confidence they need to expand solar penetration and meet ambitious renewable energy targets.”

Tabuchi Electric will showcase the company’s solar-plus-storage solution with Geli software at Solar Power International, booth #6810, at the Anaheim Convention Center from September 14-16. Geli will host a booth at site #1103.

About Tabuchi Electric

Tabuchi Electric is the leading residential solar inverter manufacturer in Japan and has been a leading power electronics company since 1925. Tabuchi’s solar+storage solutions are grid-friendly plug-and-play systems optimized for energy management and cost performance that are ready to install today. Tabuchi is committed to developing technologies to solve urgent global energy challenges and make all buildings net-zero. For more information, please visit Tabuchi Electric.

About Geli

Geli provides software and business solutions to design, connect, and operate energy storage and microgrid systems. Geli’s suite of products creates an ecosystem where project developers, OEMs, financiers, and project operators can deploy advanced energy projects using a seamless hardware-agnostic software platform. Geli ESyst^TM is an online design tool for the analysis and design of energy storage and microgrids. Geli EOS^TM, short for Energy Operating System, is a software platform that allows for advanced functionality of any OEM equipment via Geli Energy Apps & Geli Energy Drivers. Geli GENI^TM, which stands for Global Energy Network Interface, is the portal through which systems are monitored for performance and can be aggregated for virtual power-plant services.

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