LAS VEGAS - Tuesday, 12. September 2023
- Standard 20-foot container will come ready to connect
- Safety features include liquid-cooling technology and smart thermal management
- Compatible with wide range of inverter brands
(BUSINESS
WIRE) -- Hithium has announced a new 5 MegaWatt hours (MWh) container
product using the standard 20-foot container structure. The more compact
second generation (ESS 2.0), higher-capacity energy storage system will
come pre-installed and ready to connect. It will be outfitted with 48
battery modules based on the manufacturer’s new 314 Ah LFP cells, each
module providing 104.5 kWh capacity and designed to meet the needs of
large utility scale systems.
Due to the more compact design, the 5
MWh container will provide an energy density of 117 Wh/l. That is 46%
higher than the 80 Wh/l that can be seen in standard systems based on
280 Ah cells. The product will also be technically compatible with most
top inverter brands’ power control systems, or bidirectional inverters.
The
new energy storage system, named the “HiTHIUM ∞Block,” comes with the
company’s mature multi-level, liquid-cooling technology, which keeps
cell temperature variation below 3° Celsius. Intelligent thermal
management also enables the system to optimize battery power and reduce
internal energy consumption. Further safety features include multi-level
fault detection systems, cell monitoring, gas and smoke detection, and
automated fire extinguishing.
Hithium shared the news of the
breakthrough product for the first time with key customers and industry
partners at a private VIP event in the lead-up to the RE+ trade fair in
Las Vegas.
Hithium Head of Global Business Mizhi Zhang said: “The
way our team achieved the breakthroughs needed to bring this product to
market affirms our core vision. The goal is to scale energy storage,
rendering it more cost-effective. This new 5 MWh container demonstrates
that we can increase capacity and reduce LCOS, to make the energy
transition genuinely affordable.”
With 11 GWh of battery products
shipped since the company was founded in 2019, Hithium is expanding its
production capacity to 70 GWh by the end of this year.
About Hithium
Founded
in 2019, Hithium is a leading manufacturer of top-quality stationary
energy storage products for utility-scale as well as commercial and
industrial applications. With four distinct R&D centers and multiple
“intelligent” production facilities, Hithium’s innovations include
groundbreaking safety improvements to its lithium-ion batteries as well
as increases in lifecycle. With decades of cumulative experience in the
field among its founders and senior executives, Hithium leverages its
specialization in BESS to deliver partners and customers unique advances
in energy storage. The company is based in Xiamen, China, with further
locations for production, research, or sales in Shenzhen, Chongqing,
Munich, and California. Hithium has shipped 11 GWh of battery capacity, 5
GWh in 2022 alone, and is expanding its current 45 GWh of production
capacity to 70 GWh by the end of 2023.
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