UNIQUE SOLUTIONS FOR INVESTORS AND OWNERS

The Pathion DirectCore Energy Management system has several unique technical capabilities that allow for capital risk mitigation that far exceeds any other renewable energy solution.

1. Fully redundant system whose components can be replaced while the system remains operational allowing for 100% Uptime for 20 years or more.
2. Ability to use any battery type of any chemistry from any manufacturer as long as it can be put in a battery pack with matching pins… and to adapt to any new batteries in the future, coupled with the ability to work with any solar panel from any manufacturer, and to mix and match types of batteries and panels, protects the system from obsolescence over 20 years.
3. Ability to add support for any new source of power, inverter, or any service which a utility can pay for now or in the future allows for increased revenues and profitability for investors over the life of the system.
4. These technical advantages allow Pathion to offer a truly unique benefit to investors and system operators, a PERFORMANCE ASSURANCE INSURANCE POLICY from a leading provider, which guarantees system performance for the operational life, effectively guaranteeing the system’s ability to generate revenue to service the debt and deliver promised returns to investors.
5. Operation as either a standalone microgrid controller for a system that is not connected to the grid or any utility or as a smartgrid controller capable of delivering services to a utility as well as producing or purchasing power when it is cheap and selling it to the utility or customer when it is expensive.
6. Automatic ISLANDING turns a system connected to the grid into a microgrid when the utility turns off or loses power. Traditional solar solutions connected to the grid no longer function when the grid loses power. Pathion systems take over when the grid goes down allowing the solar to continue both to provide power and charge the batteries for continuous use, in addition to providing immediate backup power. This allows businesses with solar installations to continue to operate if the utility turns off the power or if it is lost due to weather or accident.

NO OTHER ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM OFFERS THESE CAPABILITIES TODAY

WHY PATHION?

The Pathion DirectCore Energy Management System has fundamentally changed the economics of renewable energy solutions for commercial and utility scale systems. For the past 30 years these systems have used the lowest cost, lowest quality components to build systems designed to operate and be amortized over 20 to 30 years. The components typically have operational lives of 7-10 years, requiring replacement multiple times over the life of the system. Additionally, other solar and storage solutions require all batteries and panels to be precisely the same make and model as were originally installed in a market where these products improve, become obsolete and are frequently discontinued within ten years or less. In most systems the failure of a single battery results in the shut down of the entire system, requiring replacement of ALL of the batteries and downtime of days or weeks or the failure of one panel shuts down the entire rack of 40 or more panels until it can be identified and replaced. The result is that “low cost” systems are typically financed for no more than 7 years, and are over-built by as much as 30% in order to insure they are performing to the minimum specification of the power purchase agreement throughout the 7 year term.

Pathion systems use high quality components and are capable of delivering a wide range of services that both save more money on energy and generate additional revenue than other systems. In addition, the system monitors the state of every individual battery and panel, notifying the operator long before they fail, disconnecting them individually until they can be replaced, all while the rest of the system remains fully operational. Any individual battery or panel can be replaced with the same type or any other type including new and improved models, allowing the system to automatically take advantage of the increased performance while allowing the system to remain operational 100% of the time. The result is that Pathion sells a higher cost, higher performance system that remains operational for 20 or more years, with no down time, no risk of obsolescence, no need to replace all of the batteries or panels at once, and with no need to over-build the system. This, coupled with an insurance policy that guarantees the performance of the system, allows Pathion to finance their systems for up to 20 years as opposed to 7-10, greatly lowering the monthly cost of energy compared to any comparable system, while providing a much higher quality solution and 100% uptime for the user and risk mitigation for the investor.

The market opportunities for renewable energy systems vary greatly from market to market both domestically and internationally. The cost and availability of power from the utilities, the stability of the grid, federal, state, and local incentives and the capability and pricing for individual utilities to support or pay for services that can be delivered by storage systems all have significant impact on opportunities for cost savings for energy or revenue that can be generated from these systems. The Pathion solutions are ideal for maximizing the savings and revenue that can be generated in markets where the greatest needs for resiliency, greatest weakness in the grid, or most services are available through the utility. As the demand and opportunity for renewable energy grows, more and more states and utilities offer combinations of state guaranteed power purchase agreements, long term service contracts and tax incentives. The SunPath Energy Development Capital Funds are designed to fund specific types of projects in markets that offer long term programs and incentives that either offer significant returns, little or no risk, and flexibility of term from 7-25 years. The funds focus on equity, debt finance, or lease of systems, potentially coupled with additional equally risk mitigated opportunities in order to deliver returns that are significantly better than other alternative investments with similar limited risk profiles.