Second life batteries find new residence at Suffolk College

• Connected Energy is to set up the initial of its brand-new generation of second life power storage space systems as part of a Suffolk County Council project.

The 300kW/360kWh E-STOR storage space system will be installed at a front runner heritage facility-- called The Hold - due to open up later on in 2020 on the University of Suffolk's Ipswich Campus.

The Hold - which will certainly house the council's archive collection - will certainly have a reduced carbon energy system, with the storage space to optimize energy use and also optimal loads throughout a system that includes solar PV as well as electric car chargers.

The system includes 24 2nd life Renault Kangoo batteries, with Renault as well as ABB having actually teamed up to raise the power and also ability efficiencies of the system.

The price of cooling down the system has actually been lowered because of Renault's battery performance modelling, too assystem efficiency information as well as CFD evaluation, according to Connected Energy. This has actually additionally caused new packaging, giving added area to promote upkeep and home performance such as EV battery charger combination.

Connected Energy CEO, Matthew Lumsden, claimed that the data-based style implies "we can a lot more precisely optimize how the batteries are made use of within any type of duty cycle and better take care of effectiveness as well as destruction".

The business is targeting a commerical as well as commercial consumer base for its E-STOR system, explaining The Hold as an example of just how "continuing adjustments in the governing as well as market atmospheres are causing I&C customers' needs to vary".

As part of the project, Connected Energy will additionally be collaborating with the University of Suffolk on a knowledge exchange partnership with the objective of sustaining research and also technology tasks across both organisations. The cooperation is developed to enable accessibility to the battery storage space system for teaching as well as research objective.

Justine Oakes, the University of Suffolk sustainability manager and also research and also business lead for the Suffolk Sustainability Institute, claimed this partnership will support "pragmatic scholastic research in smart tech renewables" as well as create a "deeper understanding of the duty cutting-edge modern technologies have to play in addressing the energy transition path to no carbon via energy storage space framework".

Second life battery storage has actually already been trialled in the UK, with EDF partnering Nissan in 2018 to release a power storage space proposition making use of second life batteries with the energy's proprietary Powershit need side feedback (DSR) platform.

Connected Energy, meanwhile, is heading the Smart Hubs project, which is integrating a 14.4 MWh power storage space system with a range of various other modern technologies invovled in the decarbonisation of warmth, power and also transportation.