Canadian Solar unit reveals utility-scale battery

• The company likewise aims to quadruple its battery production capacity by 2023

CSI Energy Storage, a subsidiary of Canadian Solar, will certainly launch a proprietary made and made energy storage battery solution for utility-scale applications.

Dubbed SolBank, the company's lithium iron phosphate battery enclosure has a usable energy capacity of 2,800 kWh.

On top of that, it is made with fluid cooling and also moisture control along with energetic balancing battery monitoring system (BMS) innovations.

CSI Energy Storage presently creates the SolBank at its workshops in Jiangsu District in China. The current yearly battery manufacturing output capacity is 2.5 GWh and also is anticipated to get to 10GWh by the end of 2023.

Chairman and also CEO of Canadian Solar Dr Shawn Qu commented: "We are delighted to launch our proprietary battery storage product, the SolBank, which is one of the very best in the marketplace in terms of item security and price competitiveness.

" Our manufacturing capacity in battery storage will stimulate the ongoing development of our battery storage solutions organization, which will certainly consequently boost the synergies with our battery storage project advancement service.

" Solar plus battery storage will be just one of the key solutions to deal with climate modification. We look forward to working together with our existing as well as new partners and contribute to worldwide decarbonisation efforts."