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... Guiding the Selection & Application of Wayside Energy Storage Technologies for Rail Transit and Electric Utilities Transit Cooperative Research Program Transportation Research Board Page 51 of 61 Appendix B - Vendor Advisory Group In the same way that the APTA Energy Storage Research Consortium unified the transit agencies and government members approach to energy storage, creation of the Vendor Advisory Group has organized the energy storage vendors seeking to do business in this area. The vendors joining the Vendor Advisory Group are shown in the following table, which also shows their primary product.
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... Guiding the Selection & Application of Wayside Energy Storage Technologies for Rail Transit and Electric Utilities Transit Cooperative Research Program Transportation Research Board Page 52 of 61 • It helped the team decide what types of devices can meet the required life cycles for charging and discharging in different systems To provide the vendor community with some level of knowledge regarding the power and cycling needs their devices may need to support, the study team performed simulations of generic system designs incorporating energy storage devices and developed a generic load demand profile as seen in Figure B-1. From this information, vendors were able to gauge the potential match of their device characteristics with the demand profile of an average system.
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... Guiding the Selection & Application of Wayside Energy Storage Technologies for Rail Transit and Electric Utilities Transit Cooperative Research Program Transportation Research Board Page 53 of 61 Simulated ESD Load Cycle (8-Car Train, 2 Minute Headway, 3MW ESD)
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