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November 12, 2022
RE: Completing Kipnuk Battery Energy Storage System
Dear Daniel,
Please find our proposal for completing the installation, integration, and
commissioning of the lithium ion battery- bank for Kipnuk Light Plant. The
battery system is designed and sized to provide grid stabilization for wind
only, or solar only operation. The proposal provides costs for the largest of
the two sizes of BESS systems, with the power converter designed for 300
kW.
The lithium-ion battery is proposed because of its chemistry, application
format and simple low maintenance design, which will allow the system to
be serviced, using single engine aircraft. We will install the battery energy
storage system in a shed, which we will build, and that construction is
included in this proposal.
This proposal ensures that the wind system, the battery, and diesels all work
together as an integrated system. The BESS is a critical missing piece.
We anticipate that with a notice to proceed we can complete the work
between 8-10 months of award, as the BESS is already purchased and
shipped to the community.
IES is committed to working with community to make this a great project.
Respectfully,
Dennis Meiners
Intelligent Energy Systems, LLC
110 W. 15th Avenue, Suite A
Anchorage, AK 99501
(907) 770-6367
Project Start is based on REF work plan and final agreements between contractor and
community, schedule of work, Notice to Proceed (NTP) and completed operations
maintenance and support plan all completed. Post-Commissioning,
Milestone Description
Tasks
Deliverables
1 Project Plan Develop installation, integration
and commissioning schedules,
project performance targets.
Approved Project Plan
For BESS installation,
integration, and
commissioning
2 Procure final materials Identify final number and types of
materials are needed:
Conductors, Component breakers,
Radios, Control software.
Order and ship installation
materials
3 Complete battery
installation
Wire BESS system and
metering to diesel powerplant
buss.
Complete installation
Provide installation report, photos
etc.
4 Integration and
Commissioning of
battery energy storage
system
To be conducted after installation
and commissioning system
components application status
review is completed. This includes
power converter, battery
management system, remote
communications, and auxiliary
support systems.
BESS Commissioning Report
5 Integration and testing of
battery and wind system
Integration of battery energy
storage control system with the
wind diesel supervisory control
and data collection system.
Integration and testing
performance report
6
Complete
commissioning of
wind+battery+diesel
system
Commission full system
operations:
wind turbines, diesel power
plant, battery energy storage.
Monthly performance
reports
Total (includes travel) $434,000
Kipnuk Battery Energy Storage Project & Electric Thermal Stove
Installation, Integration & Commissioning
Install, integrate and commission a 500kW/677 kWh Battery
Energy Storage System (BESS)
Key Personnel and Project Roles for BESS
Installation, Integration & Commissioning
Patrick Boonstra, Lead Project Manager and responsible for all Milestones being met.
Intelligent Energy Systems, LLC (IES). Patrick is an experienced and dedicated project
manager and operations manager for IES. He has 20+ years of experience bringing complex,
remote projects to successful completion. He has 10 years’ designing, managing, constructing,
and commissioning hybrid microgrid projects. Patrick has a keen sense for the practicalities of
remote construction and this experience is invaluable to plan and develop remote hybrid
microgrids from budgeting, to knowing vendor capabilities to working with subcontractors -
including those locally hired from the remote communities IES works in. In 2022 Patrick led the
IES team to complete a similar system in Kokhanak. This experience is important for efficient
installation, integration, and commissioning of the BESS and ETS units with the wind-diesel
system. (Responsible for All Milestones and Tasks to be completed.)
Dennis Meiners, Principal and Founder of Intelligent Energy Systems, LLC (IES). Dennis
has 25+ years developing alternatives to diesel-power generation for remote Alaskan
communities. This project will benefit from Dennis’s many years of experience, and his
understanding of the importance of system practicality, reliability, and ability to support field
deployed technology. Over the years, Dennis has developed IES into one of the most
experienced and capable teams of renewable microgrid technologists and specialists in North
America. IES has demonstrated its ability to assist communities to develop high penetration
renewable projects from concept to operations. (Available for All Milestones and Tasks as
needed.)
Pati Crofut (Utility Financial Management Specialist and IES Grant Manager) Responsible
for IES (the contractor) reporting requirements and determination of business operating plans
for standalone community microgrids. Pati has spent the last 20 years of her career as a rural
Alaskan utility accounting consultant and trainer. She has been responsible for assisting
communities like Napaskiak to develop financial accounting and management practices. She
provides QuickBooks training and consulting services to the State of Alaska Department of
Commerce & Rural Development. For the past 5 years, Pati has been IES’s financial operations
manager. (Financial responsibilities for All Milestones and Tasks.)
Dale Letourneau (Electrical Engineer), with more than 30 years of electrical and power system
design experience in Alaska. Dale has experience with controls, switchgear, electrical
distribution, and power systems integration design, and has worked with IES over the last 15
years. Specializing in standalone power energy generation and grid integration. Dale has
managed large and small projects across Alaska, and his projects benefit from his years of
practical experience, working with his family’s electrical business. (Co-Lead for Milestones and
Associated Tasks 3-6)
Tony D’Aoust (Renewable Energy Specialist). For over 20 years Tony has specialized in
remote solar and battery installations and operations, primarily aboard marine research vessels
deployed for 3-6 months at a time. Deciding to transfer these skills and capabilities to remote
communities, Tony is supporting these communities’ efforts to increase thei r sustainability by
reducing dependence on diesel fuel. His work includes the first ever installation of Alaska’s
coastal remote powered autonomous HF radar system; this design was later incorporated into
similar Antarctica deployment. In addition to being well-versed in remote renewable energy
systems, he has substantial experience working with research teams from universities and
federal agencies requiring detailed documentation of the projects for which he is responsible.
(Senior Technical Specialist Milestones 3-6 and Associated Tasks)
Terrance Meyer, Mechanical Engineer is a veteran of renewable energy having run his own
development company and consulting company as well as working for some of the major
players in the field. His inspiration was hydro power, interned in solar power, grew his career
with the wind energy boom, and has supported community scale and biomass projects. He has
participated in assessments for hundreds of renewable energy projects and various
technologies. These include system design, strategic planning, feasibility studies, due diligence
investigations, performance testing, technical and financial analyses, product development
research, market analyses, and patent writing. The projects have been a wide variety of
generation technologies from utility scale to distributed generation and include wind,
hydroelectric, biomass, pumped hydro energy storage, ultracapacitors, batteries, renewable
fuels, cogeneration, solar photovoltaic, solar thermal, hydroelectric, in addition to conventional
energy technologies. (Available for All Milestones and Tasks as needed.)
Ian Knapp (Technical Specialist) Ian skills range from data collection to technical analysis. Ian
will be responsible for data collection, mapping, data analysis, load monitoring, and aggregation
of data for analysis. Ian will develop methods of data collection and analysis. He specializes in
control and communications systems architectures and maintaining system reliability. (All
Milestones and Associated Tasks)