A 70MW BESS project the company delivered in 2020 in California. Banner image: a project in Hawaii for Clearway, to be completed this year. Images: Wartsila.
Andy Tang, VP of energy storage & optimisation for global energy technology group Wärtsilä, discusses software, supply chain, non-lithium storage technologies and more in this exclusive interview.
We start off by asking Tang about the second half of his job title: “The software piece is about optimising power flows and that goes hand in hand with the hardware piece, so we decided to add optimisation into into the business unit name,” he says.
Its main energy storage software is the GEMS energy management system (EMS) platform, brought into its portfolio through the acquisition of Greensmith Energy Management Systems Inc in 2017. Wärtsilä provides the platform as a standalone product as well as a way to…