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In an exclusive interview at TEVCON 2024, our co-founder Jonathan Knight discusses how this innovative mobile nanogrid delivers cost-effective, efficient, and rapidly deployable power wherever it's needed. From military applications to remote communities, see how we're transforming the future of energy generation.
In a recent podcast interview on Boom! It's on the Blockchain, Uprise Energy CEO Jonathan Knight shared his inspiring background story, detailing his family's journey from humble beginnings in boat service to becoming one of the main players in the utility wind space. Knight's experience in the wind industry led him to found Uprise Energy, a company focused on developing portable wind turbine technology. In the interview, Knight discussed the role of distributed renewable energy generation with smart microgrids in the future of energy and the importance of partnerships with organizations like AWS and the Idaho National Labs. He also delved into the California Energy Commission MORBUGs contract that Uprise Energy is fulfilling and provided an explanation of Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS). This blog post covers Knight's interview and sheds light on some exciting upcoming projects and innovations in the energy industry.
The impetus for this report was a question: “If you used an Uprise Mobile Power Station instead of a diesel generator, how many trees would it take to match the carbon offset?” In other words, diesel generators emit a significant amount of carbon dioxide in the process of generating electricity; the Mobile Power Station, on the other hand, generates carbon-free electricity. Therefore, how many trees would it take to absorb an equivalent amount of carbon dioxide as would be saved when generating electricity from a Mobile Power Station instead of a diesel generator? Internally, we performed a thorough study to answer this question which resulted in a comprehensive Engineering Report.
Uprise Energy has formed a partnership with Idaho National Laboratories (INL), a division of the US Department of Energy, to develop innovative renewable energy systems for distributed microgrid applications. To consummate the partnership, INL purchased an Uprise Energy 10kW portable wind turbine for R&D and demonstration purposes. The purpose of choosing these charts to use in this blog was simply to show visually that the power generated by the MPS varies closely with the wind speed.
It was right at this moment that history was made. Never before has a portable wind powered power generator been towed over a thousand miles on US highways, across several states, set up in less than an hour of reaching the final destination, and immediately able to flow 9 kW into an on site device. This is exactly the technology that everyone in the energy industry is speculating about right now. And this shows that we have it and it works flawlessly.
