Polar Power announces contract award from UNHCR to provide nano grid in Africa

Polar Power announces a contract award from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR, to provide a nano grid for one of its offices in Africa. The pilot project is designed to demonstrate the reliability, durability, and low operating costs of Polar Power’s nano grid technology to provide uninterrupted, quality electric power in bad-grid locations throughout the world. Arthur Sams, CEO of Polar Power commented, “This initial contract provides us with a unique opportunity to demonstrate the reliability and efficiency of our technology, and to show its benefits in regions where the grid is bad or non-existent. The difficulties that current backup systems incur are the momentary loss power and high operating costs. Consider the moment that grid power is lost, the AC backup generator starts, warms up and then switches online to power the loads. Even power interruptions for milliseconds can cause servers and computers to fail, resulting in reduced office productivity with data loss and downtime as computers reboot. Our technology solves these problems by eliminating the switch-over from grid to backup generator. Polar’s solution has the inverter on 100% of the time, the battery feeding the energy to the inverter, and the utility grid and DC generator charging the battery as needed.”