ENODA launches PRIME™ exchanger and ENSEMBLE™ platform

Paris, November 2023

• ENODA launched its game-changing PRIME™ exchanger active power correction hardware for distribution grids, and soft launched its fleet coordinating ENSEMBLE™ platform

• Both ENODA PRIME™ and ENSEMBLE™ form part of an integrated solution to increase grid capacity for volatile renewable generation, and provide system balancing from within the grid, at the lowest social marginal cost

• Both were demonstrated live at an invitation-only industry event on the monumental Champs-Élysées in Paris, Thursday November 30th

ENODA is delighted to announce the product launch of its PRIME™ exchanger grid hardware, and soft launch of its energy platform, ENSEMBLE™. The launch ran in parallel with its unique brand presence at ENLIT and coincided with the opening of COP 28.

ENODA PRIME™ exchangers can increase renewables penetration supported by the grid from ~30% to +80%. ENODA PRIME™ exchangers in a network are coordinated through ENSEMBLE™, designed to enable optimal, coordinated grid-wide demand and supply, with real-time, low-carbon balancing.

A grid enabled by ENODA PRIME™ and ENSEMBLE™ can become self-balancing and the primary provider of system stability, reducing the soaring cost of system balancing and removing the need for fossil fuel or biomass peaking power stations.

ENODA Chairman, Lindsay Whitelaw, opened the event at Maison du Danemark. He welcomed those in the room, as well as the guests watching the live stream from the UK, US, Canada, Brussels, Germany, Italy and Asia Pacific. Mr Whitelaw emphasised the importance of ENODA: “In my view, ENODA is an important company. Very few [companies] make that transition to being important on a global scale. ENODA is one of those companies. The energy trilemma… is one of the foremost challenges of our time. And that is why it is really exciting to welcome you… to a live demonstration of ENODA’s technology, that we believe is a clear and economic path to solving the energy trilemma.”

This was followed by an overview of ENODA’s intentions by founder and Chief Policy & Global Affairs Officer, Paul Domjan. Domjan said, “The technology to deliver the energy transition, including triple renewable generation as was pledged at COP28, does not exist today. ENODA has delivered the innovation that will enable the grid to operate affordably and reliably while meeting these targets, including quadrupling rooftop solar generation for the IEA’s Net Zero 2050 pathway and tripling renewable generation overall. Delivering these targets does not just require more grid, it requires fundamentally better grid with new technology.”

Founder, inventor, and Chief Technology & Product Officer, Andrew Scobie (above), introduced the purpose of the PRIME™ exchanger, explaining the central innovation concept of dynamic modulation of flux through nearfield induction.

“The electricity in this symmetry is three phases in, and three phases out. But actually, what's occurring in the magnetic domain is a single unity. And we are manipulating that unity, because there's an observable fact: you can superimpose - this is back to the conditionality of symmetries - you can impose flux on flux. You cannot efficiently impose a frequency on a frequency in the electrical system. So, there is one single moment available to us to be able to modulate that system nearly losslessly. And that is in the magnetic domain. So, what are we doing through dynamic modulation of flux through near-field induction? We are modulating these windings on this core so that we can take a very poor signal in and give you a perfect signal out. Within this subsystem, we have control. We have artificial intelligence and edge computing capacity. We have, power electronics, filters, cooling, and this sits in the same physical footprint as a transformer.”

The footprint is an essential factor for ENODA: with all of the functionality delivered, to be able to create a device small enough to fit into the physical enclosure that currently holds a transformer, is a breakthrough. As such, barriers to the adoption of the technology on a global basis are reduced on the basis of practical installation.

ENODA is delivering 400kVA EU rated PRIME™ exchangers ready for pilot trials. A scaled down demonstrator was presented to suit the non-industrial setting, with Senior Systems Architect, Dr Gurudatha Pai, showing how the PRIME™ exchanger is able to actively control voltage regulation, power factor, balance phase, and remove harmonics.

The PRIME™ exchanger was dynamically operating, conveyed through an on-screen metrics dashboard and supported with constant readings from a device-attached oscilloscope (above).

Deliberate harmonics were injected via a portable, programmable voltage supply. The energy was delivered to a switchable load bank through the PRIME™ exchanger. The PRIME™ exchanger converted the poor-quality input voltage to a perfect sinusoidal wave, visible on the oscilloscope.

Following this, Dr Conor Smyth, Program Manager for Platform, walked through a scenario (above), demonstrating ENODA’s ENSEMBLE™ platform, a blockchain-based decentralised transactive protocol, designed to enable exchangers and third-party participants to autonomously establish operational agreements combined with instant settlement. The first major application of this protocol will be to enable fleets of PRIME™ exchangers to write their own bids, via smart contracts, and participate in the provision of frequency and ancillary services to ensure system stability.

One of the criticisms of blockchain technology is the amount of energy required to reach consensus, based on the “Proof of Work” algorithm. To overcome this limitation ENSEMBLE™, uses “Proof of Stake” which consumes significantly less energy than that required by traditional blockchains, making it a highly secure, highly sustainable energy platform, with the lowest possible operational and transactive costs for all participants.

Despite the global concerns about the progress towards achieving net-zero, ENODA is a positive force on the path to a decarbonised energy system. ENODA’s integrated technology platform is both technically and economically viable as a solution for a future system. This is a system of diverse participants contributing to a competitive energy market and reversing the soaring costs of system stability to deliver stable, decarbonised, and lowest cost electricity to consumers.