ZBB Energy Announces Revolutionary Matrix Energy Management System(TM) for Commercial and Industrial Buildings

MILWAUKEE, WI--(Marketwired - May 26, 2015) - ZBB Energy Corporation (NYSE MKT: ZBB), a leading developer of innovative energy management systems solutions serving the utility and commercial and industrial (C&I) building markets, today announced the introduction of the Matrix Energy Management System, a revolutionary energy synchronization system that enables a dramatic reduction in the cost of electricity and increases the financial returns of building distributed generation systems.

The Matrix system maximizes the economic potential of the commercial and industrial building, by enabling the owner to monetize as many energy management functions and applications as possible. There are about a dozen energy management functions and applications that currently exist, and this will increase in the future. Performing these energy management applications involves combinations of AC, DC and communication inputs and outputs, and could include energy storage systems, PV, the grid, DC lighting, diesel gen-sets, fuel cells, building level wind turbines, data logging and analysis, PV optimizer data, weather forecast data and more. Matrix manages and synchronizes all of these inputs and outputs in an "active mode", for the most efficient, economical, simple and flexible solution on the market. 

The conventional approach to design of a commercial building distributed generation energy management system is to reactively control all DC and AC inputs off of an AC-Bus. Systems that use a central controller, are highly complex, low in efficiency and can cause instability in the grid. Worse, they cannot be changed without re-optimization. A newer approach is to reactively control with a central system controller off of the system DC-Bus, somewhat improving efficiency, but being just as complex and rigid. The Matrix is a leapfrog in technology and approach, with distributed intelligence and active controlling from the DC-Bus without the requirement for a central system controller. It is highly efficient, simple and scalable, with new capabilities and functions being easy to add as the building or PPA owner desires.