UK energy storage technologies undergo testing

• Testbed at Harwell Campus will certainly show AMTE's sodium ion battery within a solar connected system

AMTE Power, Brill Power and Starke Energy are joining pressures to demonstrate brand-new energy storage space item innovations at a commercial-scale testbed at Harwell Campus, in Oxfordshire, England.

Three new innovations will certainly be confirmed at a battery energy storage space system to be incorporated with the Science and also Engineering Facilities Council's (STFC) solar array at the South Car Park at Harwell Science as well as Innovation Campus.

The testbed will certainly demonstrate AMTE's sodium-ion battery module making use of Brill Power's battery intelligence modern technology and also Stark Energy's energy management system, which links stored energy right into the electrical power grid as well as markets.

This is the very first time that these innovations are being deployed in a commercially relevant project.

Emma Southwell-Sander from STFC as well as manager of the EnergyTec Cluster at Harwell Campus claimed: "STFC is delighted to host as well as sustain the project by means of site gain access to, installation, functional access and also maintenance.

" This is a prime example of exactly how, via the Net Zero Living Laboratory, Harwell's EnergyTec cluster is helping with accessibility to young innovative companies to a riches of sources to supercharge their route to market."

The energy storage space system at Harwell is anticipated to be in operation from March 2022 and also will certainly compete a minimum of one year.

As a standard, in the project's initial phase AMTE Power will release lithium ion cells prior to switching to utilize the company's Ultra Safe sodium-ion cell modern technology in the second presentation stage of the project.

John Fox, supervisor of business growth at AMTE Power, stated: "The capability to examine our brand-new items in an industrial operating environment is vital. Having access to the Harwell site will certainly speed up the time to market for our brand-new energy storage space items incorporating our Ultra Safe cells."

Sodium ion batteries offer an alternative to lithium ion in those markets where cost is more crucial than weight or performance: specifically energy storage, network strength and also energy in remote areas.

Starke Energy's energy administration system will certainly incorporate the battery system with the neighborhood energy network at Harwell.

The system, utilizing artificial intelligence, finds out just how much energy is being created by renewable resources, and also just how much is being used to optimize the storage space as well as release of energy throughout a network of connected intelligent batteries.