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Backup power for municipalities and critical infrastructure

In a crisis, the municipality looks to its infrastructure: emergency services, water supply and schools must work — precisely when the grid does not.

Municipalities · Critical infrastructure

Staying operational when it matters

A wide-area blackout is not a technical problem for a municipality — it is an organisational one. Without power, radios and gates fail at the municipal yard, pumping stations stop, schools go dark and cold. Battery storage makes municipal facilities independent enough to continue operating in an orderly way — and lowers running electricity costs in normal times.

  • Fire station and municipal yard: gates, radio and lighting stay ready
  • Waterworks and pumping stations keep running without interruption
  • Schools and kindergartens stay heated, lit and supervised
  • Municipal office and communications remain reachable
  • Municipal PV systems become usable around the clock

How it works

Preparedness that pays for itself day to day

  1. Automatic backup power

    During an outage the battery takes over the defined critical loads — on the OmniCube, per the manufacturer's datasheet, switching over in under 20 milliseconds without manual intervention.

  2. Lower operating costs

    Between crises the same battery works economically: it stores PV power from municipal roofs and caps load peaks from pumps and heating systems.

  3. Safe and low-maintenance

    Built for sensitive sites: fire-resistant enclosure, integrated suppression system and predictive maintenance via cell monitoring (iCCS) — features per the manufacturer's datasheet.

The right technology

Values per the OmniCube A215 manufacturer datasheet:

  • 215 kWh capacity, 100 kW output
  • Backup switchover < 20 ms (with STS)
  • 2-hour fire-resistant enclosure, aerosol suppression system
  • Operates from −30 °C to +55 °C, outdoor installation IP55
  • Scalable for larger facilities (up to 10 units in parallel)

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