Northvolt reveals modular lithium-ion battery

• The Swedish storage space system maker claimed its Voltpack Mobile System can be made use of in various market sectors, especially for weak or remote grids. The battery has a scalable storage space capability varying from 245 kWh to 1,225 kWh. Swedish utility Vattenfall is currently examining the system's abilities.

Sweden-based storage space system service provider Northvolt has actually created a brand-new lithium-ion battery based upon a modular strategy that makes it ideal for a variety of various power market sectors.

The maker stated the brand-new Voltpack Mobile System is a perfect service for weak or remote grids and also EV charging. Nevertheless, it has actually asserted that it can likewise be made use of for harmonizing, grid adaptability, as well as secondary solutions.

" Voltpack Mobile System delivers up to 250 kW with a scalable ability from 245 to 1225 kWh of readily available power," Northvolt claimed. "The system ranges with a main user interface center, which can link in parallel approximately 5 self-supporting Voltpacks, each including 3 liquid-cooled, industrial-grade battery Voltpack Cores."

Voltpack Mobile Systems can be attached in collection if even more storage space capability is required, with the main center functioning as a user interface for applications such as house inverters as well as complementary systems. The battery modern technology, along with the inverter systems and also battery monitoring system, were created and also produced by Northvolt.

Vattenfall

Utility Vattenfall is evaluating the system at its center in Alvkarleby, Sweden. "Vattenfall will certainly be the initial to use the battery system to the marketplace, as well as have actually determined the demand for lasting services at sectors, for microgrids, building and construction websites along with for occasion coordinators," Northvolt stated.

Torbjorn Johansson, head of Vattenfall Network Solutions Sweden, stated that the firm will certainly provide the battery storage space service as part of its "power-as-a-service" idea. "(This) suggests that we provide a total bundle with possession of the power storage space as well as handle it to the requirements of the client," he included.

Northvolt lately protected $1 billion in equity financing to develop a lithium-ion battery cell gigafactory manufacturing facility in Sweden. It currently has an operational research laboratory in Vasteras, 2 battery cell manufacturing facilities incomplete in Skelleftea, as well as a functional battery-systems manufacturing facility in Gdansk, Poland.

Along with its Swedish gigafactory, Northvolt has actually consented to establish a 50/50 joint endeavor with Volkswagen to establish one more 16 GWh battery cell manufacturing facility together with Salzgitter in Lower Saxony, Germany.