Applications across different sectors
IONATE's Hybrid Intelligent Transformer replaces traditional transformers at any power level, from local distribution to transmission.
Wherever highly dynamic power-flow control is required, IONATE delivers the most reliable and cost effective hardware technology.
Electricity Grids
Wind Generation
Solar & Storage
Electricity
Grids
IONATE’s technology replaces transformers within the grid.
Grid operators experience significant challenges in maintaining system reliability. Increasing penetration of renewables and unpredictable loads are causing growing imbalances in power flows. Upgrading the network with improved power flow-control capabilities to resolve this becomes imperative as the energy transition progresses.
IONATE’s Hybrid Intelligent Transformer is a cost effective solution offering grid operators the control, visibility, and flexibility they need to balance their networks. Unlike other devices that add external layers of hardware and software to the electricity grid, IONATE’s Hybrid Intelligent Transformer is designed to build into the existing network and reinforce the system from within.
Grid Functions
Real time power quality
Independent phase voltage control
Power factor correction
System inertia
Grid Benefits
Reduction in CAPEX
Improved grid reliability
Increased network capacity
Increased grid visibility & control
Consumer Benefits
Reduction in blackouts
More rooftop solar
More electric vehicles
Lower energy prices
Wind
Generation
IONATE’s technology replaces transformers in the turbine and substation.
Wind energy, like other renewables, produces a highly variable output. As the proportion of wind generation grows, the electricity grid becomes increasingly fragile, in part due to the lack of system inertia previously provided by fossil fuel generation.
To compensate for this, additional expensive technologies are required for wind turbines, increasing costs and decreasing reliability. IONATE's technology removes the need for these additional assets, reducing cost and complexity, whilst simultaneously reducing failure rates through improved output power quality.
Reliability
Reduced number of turbine faults
Reduction in transformer failures
Higher security of supply
Quality
Improved generation export capability to grid
Longer asset lifetimes
Reduction in losses
Cost
Eliminate CAPEX for supplementary correction equipment
Reduced ongoing OPEX related to hardware service and faults
Solar
& Storage
IONATE’s technology replaces grid-tie transformers.
Renewable energy and battery storage projects are increasingly critical components of the energy transition. Often, where these technologies are needed most, existing grid infrastructure is unfit to absorb the non-synchronous, intermittent, and unstable types of power these projects can deliver.
Network operators respond by imposing onerous power-flow control requirements on new renewables projects and curtail the output of existing projects, often rendering projects uneconomic. Power electronics based technologies can provide solutions to the technical issues and allow projects to meet grid code, but these are unreliable and costly.
IONATE’s Hybrid Intelligent Transformer is a reliable and cost effective solution. Projects that would otherwise be uneconomic and not built due to the significant cost of installing power electronics based power-flow control devices become economic, and are completed and able to contribute to the energy transition.
Grid-Scale Solar
Reduced CAPEX for solar project grid connections
Improved generation export capability to grid
Reduced OPEX related to hardware service & faults
Reduction in failures & in losses
Grid-Scale Storage
Improved battery charge/discharge performance & efficiency
Longer battery lifetime
Reduced electronics failure rates
Reduced OPEX related to hardware service & faults