Most individuals outside of the aerospace business have never heard of EnerVenue, a battery manufacturer. With more than 200 million cell-hours and 100,000 charge and discharge cycles of steady electricity, its nickel hydrogen batteries have proven themselves in orbiting missions.
The company now aims to use its technique for Earth’s energy storage industry. It is providing Capacity Assurance, which it describes as the easiest guarantee in the industry – 20 years and 200,000 charge/discharge cycles with no more than 12% degradation — in an effort to attract potential consumers.
According to says Randy Selesky , chief revenue officer at EnerVenue, “the stationary storage sector has been requesting a straightforward, long-term capacity guarantee for years.” “Capacity Assurance gives an industry-best promise that complements EnerVenue’s reliable technology and offers both operational assurance and contractual protection to our partners,” says the company.
EnerVenue customers can manage risk and safeguard their investments with Capacity Assurance. This uncomplicated extended warranty is provided with no hidden exclusions and straightforward operating conditions. It covers a project when it is in its most crucial payback phase. By supporting the long-term life cycles of conventional energy storage projects, Capacity Assurance terms, with an assurance of 88% capacity over 20 years, are created to correspond with customers’ expectations.
The nickel hydrogen battery from EnerVenue provides energy suppliers and system owners with grid scale renewable storage technology that overcomes the drawbacks of lithium-ion batteries in terms of cost, durability, and safety. The battery degradation in the traditional batteries is severe and serious. Every year, their power output decreases by several percent, forcing energy providers to perform costly mitigation measures like adding additional battery banks to their current footprints to meet their contractual power output commitments. With their high price and complexity, lithium-ion warranties reflect this risk. They typically have a wide range of exclusions and exceptions and call for operation within a very small specification window.
EnerVenue’s battery solutions, in comparison, offer a 30 year design life with very little year-to-year depreciation. EnerVenue’s batteries are ultra-low maintenance without the need for augmentations, with comparable low material and operational expenses. EnerVenue batteries are also designed to function in a wide range of ambient temperatures (-40°C to 60°C), which eliminates the need for auxiliary heating and cooling. They also exhibit extremely minimum deterioration and pose no risk of fire or thermal runaway. They are also completely recyclable and non-toxic.
ENERVENUE IS SUBSCRIBING CLIENTS EnerVenue has purchased an AA2 in Fremont, California, where it plans to build a test production line. It is four times as large as the business’s current Fremont headquarters. With that more room, it will have the room it needs to increase production and hire more personnel with experience in sales, service, and engineering. Additionally, it offers room for a greater manufacturing area and a bigger research and development program.
In June, it made a deal to give Puerto Rico’s Sonnell Energy Solutions 40 MWh of its EnerStation battery systems in 2023, followed by another 420 MWh in 2024 and 2025. The business signed a contract with Green Energy Renewable Solutions , a Houston-based company that specializes in constructing onshore and offshore renewable energy systems, last month. In 2023, 2024, and 2025, EnerVenue will supply 50 MWh, 100 MWh, and 100 MWh of its nickel hydrogen batteries, respectively.
According to CEO Henrik Jensen, “EnerVenue’s energy storage technology will be a critical asset to Green Energy Renewable Solutions.” “EnerVenue’s technology is exceptionally long-lasting and durable, requires little maintenance, and is especially important for our anticipated applications due to its fire-safe characteristics. Green Energy Renewable Solutions will be able to offer our worldwide customer base enhanced value with the aid of EnerVenue’s transformative technology.
Although first projects are anticipated to be onshore, Green Energy’s energy storage solutions must adhere to exceptionally stringent DNV and CE certification requirements for systems deployed in the offshore and maritime industry in order to satisfy the company’s long-term aims. An extremely important safety and compliance factor in offshore areas, such as oil rigs, is the availability of nickel hydrogen batteries from EnerVenue, which offer exceptionally extended battery life with minimum maintenance requirements and zero fire propagation risk.
A multi-year agreement to deploy 2400 MWh of nickel hydrogen energy storage systems in the US was announced by EnerVenue and Pine Gate Renewables in May. With more than 16 GW of active development across the nation, Pine Gate Renewables now oversees more than one gigawatt of operational renewable assets. Through the deal, Pine Gate will be able to benefit from EnerVenue’s incredibly reliable, secure, and affordable energy storage technology, which can offer numerous power cycles daily.
“EnerVenue batteries offer a differentiated value proposition, with lesser deterioration across a broad temperature range, cheaper maintenance and augmentation costs, and no risk of fire or thermal runaway. According to Raafe Khan, director of energy storage at Pine Gate Renewables, these batteries may cycle numerous times per day and have a stackable form factor with a lifespan of more than 30 years.
THE KEY LESSON EnerVenue hasn’t provided a lot of technical information regarding their nickel hydrogen battery. We are unable to provide information about the energy density, cost, or the number of hours it can send energy to the grid. The sole information provided by the company is that its electricity costs roughly a penny per kWh once it is operational, and that its acquisition costs are marginally cheaper than those of a conventional lithium-ion storage battery.
The fact that many people who are knowledgeable about the technicalities have committed to spending millions of dollars to purchase these batteries is the one thing that implies this technology might actually be true. We are left to assume that if the facts didn’t support their investments, they wouldn’t do it.
When it comes to grid scale energy storage, lithium-ion batteries were the only game in town for a while. However, the world of technology is never still. While Form Energy claims its iron and salt batteries can provide electricity for up to 100 hours, ESS and Energy Dome promise 10 hours of storage at competitive pricing.
In the grid scale storage sector, things are constantly changing. Perhaps there is more than enough room in the mix of existing energy storage devices for nickel hydrogen batteries from EnerVenue.
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