ROCHESTER, N.Y., Sept. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Arista Power, Inc.
("Arista Power" or the "Company") (OTCBB: ASPW) announced today
that it has received a contract valued at $625,000 from the U.S. Army to further develop an
Intelligent Micro-Grid System in support of the U.S. Army
Communications Electronics Research and Development Center's
(CERDEC's) Command Power and Integration Renewable Energy for
Distributed Under-Supplied Command Environments (REDUCE)
program.
The contract builds on Arista Power's successful Phase 1 and
Phase 2 programs, for which Arista Power is the prime contractor.
Under the next phase of the program, Arista Power will continue
work towards the standardization of interfaces and development of
an open communication protocol allowing a truly plug and play
environment to be leveraged by military micro grids deployed in
forward operating bases. The contract calls for Arista Power
to provide demonstrated capability of an advanced Energy Resource
Manager and the ability to utilize multiple energy storage systems
of various chemistries seamlessly within the same micro-grid
system.
Arista Power was selected as prime contractor to
develop the U.S. Army's Intelligent Micro-Grid in January 2012, and received a Phase Two
development contract to further develop the system in October 2012.
A top priority for the U.S. Army is the availability of adequate
power in remote locations to run all the equipment necessary to
fight a war and maintain the quality of life for soldiers at these
locations. Because a majority of the power used at these locations
is provided by diesel generators, the difficulty and expense of
providing the fuel to run these generators at remote locations is a
major concern for the U.S. Army.
"The Department of Defense has established an overall goal
of obtaining 25% of its energy from renewable sources by 2020,"
said Adeeb Saba, Arista Power's Vice
President of Operations and Project Manager of the Intelligent
Micro-Grid System Program. "Arista Power is proud to be
playing a role in this effort and is committed to being a reliable
and innovative partner of the U.S. Army and the Department of
Defense in their ongoing efforts toward achieving that
objective."
About Arista Power, Inc.
Arista Power, Inc. is a
developer, manufacturer, and supplier of custom-designed power
management systems, renewable energy storage systems, and a
supplier and designer of solar energy systems. Arista Power's
patent-pending Power on Demand system utilizes inputs from multiple
energy sources including wind, solar, fuel cells, and the grid, in
conjunction with a custom-designed battery storage system and a
proprietary smart monitoring technology that releases energy at
optimal times to reduce peak power demand, thereby lowering
electricity costs for large energy users who deal with peak usage
pricing. Arista Power also sells a Mobile Renewable Power Station
(MRPS) that utilizes energy generated from wind, solar PV,
generators, fuel cells and other energy-generating devices that is
stored in an integrated onboard storage device for military and
other applications, and a stationary, scalable Renewable Power
Station (RPS) that can be drop-shipped to off-grid locations to be
used as a micro-grid. For more information on Arista Power,
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About the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Research,
Development and Engineering Center ("CERDEC")
The
Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering
Center (or "CERDEC") is the United States Army's information
technologies and integrated systems center. Located at the Aberdeen
Proving Grounds in Maryland,
CERDEC is one of the 10 organizations that make up the U.S. Army's
Research, Development and Engineering Command ("RDECOM") and is the
leading supplier of advanced Command, Control, Communications,
Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
capabilities, technologies and integrated solutions for the
Warfighter. For more on CERDEC, please go to:
www.cerdec.army.mil.
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