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The Standardizer

pv magazine innovation award: The founders of Qinous want to supply the world with standardized storage containers for microgrids. That could replace a lot of diesel-generated power with photovoltaics.

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Michael Fuhs

01 Oct 2014

In a photo, they look like nondescript shipping containers. Inside there are no big secrets either, just the well-known components of a standard microgrid. Nevertheless, Steffen Heinrich and Busso von Bismarck have built a business on the system. They named their business Qinous, and now, less than a year after its founding, they have already …

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