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ARDA Power is working to change forever the way the world implements microgrid systems for non-residential buildings. For the first time ever, you can simply and quickly configure a system using common controls and standard components. A battery-centric, DC-connected platform conceived by ARDA engineers with technology originally developed at the University of Toronto makes possible microgrids that are simple, low cost, resilient and versatile - whether used for EV fast charging, backup power or demand charge reduction.
Designed and produced by ARDA in Ontario, distributed and installed by VAR and EPC partners. HistoryIn late 2011 ARDA Power received early stage financing to develop DC-DC power electronics technology licensed from the University of Toronto. The company then began work on a range of power electronics components designed with distributed generation and DC Microgrids in mind.
Over the next ten years ARDA completed several follow-on equity and debt investments and successfully applied for multiple grants and loans from Canadian federal and regional agencies including FedDev, Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) and the Ontario Smart Grid Fund. Between 2012 and 2016 ARDA built and deployed power electronics components for multiple solar, energy storage and fuel cell customers including Black & Veatch and Fuel Cell Energy. These real world applications helped ARDA generate intellectual property leading to development of the ARDA DC Microgrid Platform. In 2018 ARDA installed the first-of-its-kind Burlington DC Microgrid Project at an industrial facility in Ontario. The system DC-coupled solar energy, a gas generator, a multi-hour battery, and DC loads including LED lights on a DC bus. It was the first complete real world implementation of the company’s DC microgrid architecture and control system. In 2019 ARDA announced that it had won a competitive bid together with Worley, a global EPC, to provide a solar plus storage based DC Microgrid to the University of Toronto. The DC Microgrid including solar, storage, grid-tie and multiple DC loads, was successfully installed and commissioned in late 2020, and has been running successfully ever since. In 2021 ARDA decided to focus on applications of its DC Microgrid Platform that include solar plus storage plus EV Fast Chargers while providing backup services for adjacent buildings. |
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