confidence in your battery energy storage system

Realize your storage asset's true capacity.

Zitara's real-time, on-premise solution knows exactly how much energy is available in your battery storage system and intelligently optimizes your operations.

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More accurate signals + smarter balancing = up to 15% additional capacity unlocked.

Zitara’s accurate power and balance algorithms replace your unreliable signals, giving you visibility into your rack-level imbalance levels as well as reliable trading signals. This unlocks intelligent balancing programs and more aggressive trading strategies. Less downtime. More money.

Improved Availability

Zitara algorithms will accurately communicate the state of your asset, giving you confidence into how much power you have available and for how long.  Now you can finally be more aggressive with your trading strategies.

Optimized Balancing

Zitara gives you visibility into the imbalance of your asset, down to the rack, or string, level.  This visibility allows you to prioritize your balancing activities at a more granular level.

Reduced Downtime

Now that you know which racks to balance, and for how long, you no longer need to guess which racks to balance. Out-of-balance racks come down, in-balance racks do not.

Industry Challenges facing Utilities, IPPs, and Operators.

Batteries are complicated, and it's hard to know what to ask when investing in a new asset.

Factors like cell choice, environmental controls, and operating limits all impact the performance and longevity of your asset. Without a team of battery experts, knowing what to ask your OEMs and integrators is challenging.

Your onboard battery management system starts out wrong and gets worse over time.

Your system’s available energy is a more complex calculation than the state of charge. Even worse, a three-year-old battery is a different battery than it was on day one. Your built-in battery management system doesn’t adequately account for degradation, compounding errors over time.

Surprise shutdowns are avoidable, but not with data from a typical battery management system.

Unknown energy availability, cell imbalances, and thermal issues are some of the root causes of surprise shutdowns. Most assets come with fixed safety limits that don't account for these dynamic conditions. These assets fail to alert early enough, causing avoidable shutdowns.

We know your batteries, so we can tell you exactly what they’re capable of.

Zitara conducts an in-depth analysis and characterization of your specific battery cell model. This analysis considers age, chemistry, and location of each cell within your battery system. Using predictive modeling with your system’s existing sensors, Zitara’s algorithms know exactly how much energy you can dispatch at any moment.

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Zitara Offers Three Products

Zitara Power

Zitara Power is an on premise algorithm that monitors cell-level raw data inputs your asset already tracks — voltage, current, and temperature — and produces accurate real time controls signals like State of Power, State of Energy, HSL, MXDP, and State of Charge. These control signals replace the error-prone signals provided by your existing system.

Zitara Balance

Zitara Balance is an on premise algorithm that monitors cell-level raw data inputs your asset already tracks — voltage, current, and temperature — and produces real time balance/imbalance signals at the rack level. This signal prioritizes each rack in your balance queue. No more site-wide downtime or guessing - balanced racks remain undisturbed, online, and generating revenue.

Zitara Insight

Zitara Insight is a service providing an analysis on historical production data from your asset. The resulting report identifies evidence of, and root causes for, control signal errors, rack level imbalances, and safety issues. This report gives you actionable information driving asset revenue optimization.

If you have assets in the field that aren't behaving as expected, talk to us about a Zitara Insights Report.

The Zitara Insights Report is a direct view into how well your system performs in real-world scenarios and reveals specific deficiencies in your system. With your Insights Report results you can confidently work with your vendors and integrators to correct any problems and efficiently plan for upgrades or augmentation.

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FAQs

How do Energy Storage Systems work?

Energy Storage Systems (ESS) work by storing excess energy during periods of low demand and releasing it when demand is high or during power outages. This is achieved through various technologies, such as batteries, pumped hydro storage, or thermal storage, which store energy in different forms and convert it back to electricity when needed.

What is the difference between energy storage and battery storage?

Energy storage is a broader term encompassing various technologies that store energy, including mechanical, thermal, and chemical methods. Battery storage specifically refers to the use of rechargeable batteries as a form of energy storage, utilizing chemical reactions to store and release electrical energy.

How does Zitara help Energy Storage Systems?

Zitara Live runs directly on Battery Energy Storage Systems, constantly monitoring all the battery sensor signals and putting this data to work to help you understand how your battery is operating. By engaging directly with your asset, Zitara delivers actionable insights for day-to-day operations, eliminating the dependency on a network connection.

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