SkyBuilt Power's Mobile Power Station Nominated for Edison Awards' Best Product

ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- SkyBuilt Power's Mobile Power Station has been nominated by the Edison Awards organization as a 2011 Best New Product.  This prestigious award honors excellence in products as well as societal impact, marketplace and technological innovation.

The Award symbolizes Thomas Edison's inspiring drive for American innovation and creativity.  2010 winners included the Kindle II, the Honeywell Wind Turbine, and GE's Hybrid Water Heater.  Nominations are reviewed by a Steering Committee and 2,500 business executives.  Winners will be announced in February 2011.

David Muchow, SkyBuilt's President and CEO, noted that, "We are honored that Edison Awards has considered SkyBuilt for this prestigious award."  

Bill Buck, SkyBuilt's chairman, noted that, like Edison, SkyBuilt has taken a variety of best of breed commercial products and created completely integrated, optimized and automatic power systems.  These patented plug-and-play power systems provide easy expansion, upgrading, and rapid deployment.  

SkyBuilt invented the world's first rapidly deployable, expandable, combined solar and wind, power stations.  SkyBuilt is a leader in pre-packaged power systems for government uses, including Army ops centers and FOBS in Afghanistan, USAF (airfield power), DOE, and DHS power.  Systems are ideal for telecommunications, intelligence, disaster relief, health clinics, water pumping/treatment and sustainable economic development. In-Q-Tel, the CIA's strategic investment firm, is a shareholder.

SkyBuilt has been saving up to 97% on fuel in the field. Systems are fixed or mobile, on or off grid, rugged, and reduce fuel and maintenance in any climate worldwide. They can pay for themselves in months to a few years in operating cost savings.

Platforms range from low power to high power and microgrid systems:  

SkyStation – containerized, space conditioned system with solar, wind, batteries and/or generators, fully automatic, including other options, and

SkyTrailer provides mobile renewable power on trailers – sets up in as little as 45 minutes.

SkySkid provides lightweight power on fork liftable skids for remote communications and other uses.

SkyCase is a man-portable power station in an airline-checkable case with high efficiency SkyPAK solar blankets 3 times more efficient than others.

SkyWater combines far more efficient water treatment technology with a mobile or fixed, power system.

SkyStructures are panelized, insulated, fire resistant, rapidly deployable structures with integrated renewable energy power systems.  

Products above are trademarks of SkyBuilt Power.

SOURCE SkyBuilt Power