According to Wally Weber of UT Energy and project manager for the Rosebank Mall implementation, the system is managed by a real-time telemetry platform that chooses the most cost-effective combination of energy sources to use an any given time.
"Hyprop wanted a solution that merges financial return with energy investment," said Weber in an on-site interview with TechCentral on Tuesday. Hyprop has not disclosed how much it has spent on the project.
"Now that we have multiple technology platforms - battery, diesel, gas, council power and solar PV - if diesel prices were to change and gas were to become more competitive, we could lean into that. We use solar PV on sunny days, but if it gets cloudy the system will shift to the next-best technology. It all about moving into a new mindset, about energy arbitrage."