Testing and certification lab CSA Group opened its new Distributed Vitality Useful resource Lab in Independence, Ohio. The brand new lab addresses an growing demand for the testing and certification of vitality storage units, charging gear, microgrid elements, and energy conversion programs.
The 40,000 sq-ft superior know-how lab will present CSA Group prospects with an expanded set of companies, together with electrical and practical security analysis, megawatt hearth testing, environmental simulation, vitality effectivity verification, cybersecurity evaluation, grid interoperability analysis, and efficiency testing.
Opening of the brand new Distributed Vitality Useful resource Lab expands CSA Group’s current vitality storage analysis, testing and certification capabilities already established in North America, Europe and China. The brand new lab is accredited to judge and certify merchandise to a variety of requirements, offering each new entrants to the market and the business’s largest gamers the assets wanted to launch their merchandise in North America and international markets.
Independence, Ohio, has been house to CSA Group’s U.S. headquarters since 1969 and was chosen as the situation of the brand new lab as a consequence of its proximity to many purchasers within the distributed vitality useful resource business.
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“With extra industries searching for to decarbonize, the demand for vitality storage and microgrid merchandise continues to extend, and so does the necessity for testing, analysis and certification companies to assist producers exhibit the protection, effectivity and efficiency of those merchandise,” says David Weinstein, President and CEO, CSA Group. “CSA’s certification marks are among the many most well-known and broadly accepted marks for battery and electrical merchandise in North America. With this new Distributed Vitality Useful resource Lab, we hope to fulfill the wants of producers for years to return. When designing the brand new lab, we did so in shut session with our technical specialists, prospects and business thought-leaders, with the purpose of offering our prospects with the companies wanted to deliver cutting-edge merchandise to a worldwide market.”
Together with the opening of the brand new facility, CSA Group introduced a $10,000 donation to the Kiwanis Membership of Independence, a company devoted to serving the local people by way of numerous service and fundraising initiatives targeted on bettering the world one baby at a time.
For extra details about CSA Group’s international vitality storage capabilities, go to: www.csagroup.org/energystorage
