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Remote Village Power Systems
Sustainable Automation company president Steve Drouilhet was the principal designer of the NREL high penetration wind-diesel system in Wales, Alaska. This system pioneered the use of short term energy storage to minimize diesel run time and fuel consumption.
In many regions of the world, standalone diesel power systems are the principal means of rural electrification. Diesel generators have high operating costs in remote areas due to high routine maintenance requirements and high cost of fuel transport and storage. In regions where the wind resource is good, wind-diesel hybrid power is increasingly being recognized as the technology of choice for reducing the overall cost and environmental impact of electric power generation in remote communities. Sustainable Automation provides system integration engineering expertise to rural utilities and village power project developers interested in implementing such systems. Once the power system is fully defined, Sustainable Automation can supply the core control components that will allow the system to function optimally and in fully automatic mode.

Sustainable Automation provided the Secondary Load Controller and Wind Turbine Supervisory Controller for this 300 kW wind-diesel hybrid power system in Selawik, Alaska.