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Ecoult takes Australian UltraBattery® technology into the European grid of the future
Sydney based company Ecoult is taking its energy storage products, powered by the UltraBattery, into Europe with an installation this month in Dublin to integrate fast-response storage with the electricity grid.
Respected German specialist in renewable systems and power converter manufacturer, Freqcon, has selected Ecoult to provide battery storage for its Tallaght Smart Grid Testbed, which is operated by MEGA, the Irish Micro Electricity Generation Association. The system will show how a combination of energy storage and smart power electronics can minimize electricity distribution issues and grid instability in a micro grid.
Norbert Hennchen, CEO of Freqcon, said, “The market for grid-tied energy storage systems is growing, and fast frequency response is a valuable system service to the grid. Ecoult`s hybrid lead-acid UltraBattery is a very promising technology in this space and we are excited to partner with Ecoult and deploy the first unit in Europe“
The UltraBattery system, combined with the Freqcon power converters will demonstrate that energy storage can provide “synthetic inertia”, competing with and outperforming existing fossil fuel balancing resources. The battery storage paired with an advanced power conversion system will establish that the UltraBattery system is capable of delivering system services in accordance with Ireland’s DS3 grid standard.
Ecoult was selected because of its ground-breaking technology, proven in the US grid market, where Ecoult has pioneered its hybrid lead-acid UltraBattery as a leading technology for fast-cycling, high-rate, partial state of charge functions. The UltraBattery is manufactured in the U.S.A. by leading manufacturer and Ecoult’s parent company East Penn Manufacturing.
“The UltraBattery is a hybrid technology,” Ecoult CEO John Wood explained. “It contains both battery chemistry and ultracapacitor technology built into each cell. This Australian invention has the safety, sustainability and dependability of lead-acid, and has been shown to outperform other battery chemistries in similar applications. Since the technology is built on a proven and safe lead-acid platform, UltraBattery cells are recyclable and we’re delighted that Freqcon has chosen to partner with our technology and storage system.” he said.
For more information and interview opportunities with Ecoult please contact:
Inka Schrader, Marketing Manager, [email protected]
Robert Stevenson, Engineering Communications Manager, [email protected]
Freqcon Contact:
Klaus Harder: +353 (0)71 966 3003; [email protected]
Energy storage and battery technologies
We are developing next generation energy storage technologies that use thermal energy, batteries and ceramics to manage the delivery and flow of electricity.
THE CHALLENGE
Making renewable energy reliable
One of the major challenges of renewable energy is how to provide electricity when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing.
OUR RESPONSE
Advanced storage technologies
We have been pursuing energy storage, including battery technologies, for more than 20 years. We are conducting significant research to overcome the challenges of intermittency, storage and dispatch of electricity generated from solar and wind energy.
Our mechanical, chemical and electrical engineers and numerical modelers are working in the solar thermal (mirror) arena to look at a range of potential solutions. These include storing heat in oil, molten salts, high-temperature ceramics and as chemical reactants.
Our research includes the CSIRO-developed UltraBattery. This battery is an advanced system which can store solar electricity produced by photovoltaic (PV) cells.
Our work in energy storage also includes research into:
Expertise in battery technologies
- high performance batteries
- supercapacitors
- fuel cells.
Our expertise for modelling, synthesis, fabrication and testing of battery technology includes: fabrication, prototypes, anodes, thin electrolytes, packaging, costing, modular design; knowledge of leading edge battery technology; optimising operating window, energy and power densities.
Distributed energy
Distributed energy is a major research area for us. The concept of distributed energy involves the local generation of power, heat and cooling using emerging gas technologies and integrating with selected renewables and traditional generation. We work in collaboration with the Centre for Distributed Energy and Power (CenDEP) and showcase various distributed energy technologies at our Energy Centre. For example microturbine gas engines roughly the size of a household refrigerator are being demonstrated at the Centre to examine co-generation.
Applications and spin-offs
Our research has created a number of commercial opportunities that have led to license agreements and the formation of spin-off companies:
Case studies
- Furukawa Battery: We have been working with Furukawa Battery since 2005 on the development and commercialisation of the UltraBattery
- East Penn: Our UltraBattery technology will soon reach North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) markets through US battery manufacturer East Penn Manufacturing Co. Inc
- Cap-XX Pty Ltd: Our supercapacitor technology is being commercialised by Cap-XX Pty Ltd, which develops high power, high energy supercapacitors in thin, flat, prismatic packages
- Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited (CFCL): We formed CFCL in partnership with a consortium of leading energy and industrial companies. CFCL is a world leader in developing solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology.
- Renewable Energy Integration Facility
Demonstrating how electricity networks will work in the future and evaluating new grid technologies in a real-world development and testing environment.- UltraBattery
Turning the conventional lead-acid battery into a dynamic technology for storing electricity and powering vehicles.
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UltraBattery®: The New Dimension in Lead-Acid Battery Technology
Hybrid Energy Storage
UltraBattery® is a completely new class of lead-acid technology: a hybrid, long-life lead-acid energy storage device containing both an ultracapacitor and a lead-acid battery in a common electrolyte.
UltraBattery® operates very efficiently in continuous Partial State of Charge (PSoC) use without frequent overcharge maintenance cycles. It can be utilized to continually manage energy intermittencies, smooth power, and shift energy, using a band of charge that is neither totally full nor totally empty.
The breakthrough energy storage technology combines the advantages of the most tried and tested advanced rechargeable lead-acid battery technology with the advantages of an ultracapacitor. UltraBattery® enables an optimal balance of an energy-storing lead-acid battery with the quick charge acceptance, power discharge, and longevity of a capacitor.
High Efficiency and Cycle Endurance in Partial State of Charge Use
Standard valve-regulated lead-acid (VRLA) batteries can form ‘hard’ lead sulphate deposits inside the negative plate when operated continuously in a Partial State of Charge (PSoC) regime, unless given frequent refresh overcharge cycles. The Ultracapacitor integrated in the UltraBattery® chemistry modifies the process associated with the formation and dissolving of sulphate crystals in the negative plate when charging and discharging. This enables the UltraBattery® to operate with high efficiency in Partial State of Charge use.
Combined with the cycling endurance of the technology, UltraBattery’s® high efficiency in a PSoC results in an ability to process a much greater amount of energy in the device’s usable lifetime – a significant multiple over standard VRLA battery technology. The ability of UltraBattery’s® to process more energy, more quickly and for longer than a VRLA battery is fundamental to the typical grid and renewables requirements for smoothing the variability and shifting of energy.
Proven Outperformance of UltraBattery®
With its high cycling life, high conversion efficiency and low operating costs, UltraBattery® offers an economical $/kWh solution for whole of life for continuous regulation services and intermittency control. As the new dimension in lead-acid battery technology, it is safe, recyclable and produces virtually zero emissions. UltraBattery® is the economic and environmentally sound alternative to conventional generation assets. The outperformance of UltraBattery® across a range of key performance parameters has been proven in multiple tests by Sandia National Laboratory, the Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC), CSIRO, Furukawa Battery, East Penn Manufacturing and Ecoult. UltraBattery® takes charges faster, lasts longer, and is more reliable in a string than any competing best-performing VRLA battery.
UltraBattery® is a Versatile Energy Storage Technology
Invented by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s national science agency, UltraBattery® is a flexible energy storage battery technology suitable for multiple uses: automotive (such as hybrid electric vehicles), motive and stationary (such as renewable energy) applications.
http://www.ecoult.com/landing/whitepaper/Ecoult_UltraBattery_White_Paper_Technical_Version.pdf
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Giant hiding in plain sight revolutionising energy and renewables
Thursday 8 October 2015
As the world grapples with the challenge of providing reliable, cost effective and clean power to every person on the planet, a Sydney based company is set to revolutionise the energy sector and bolster renewables.
Ecoult brings the CSIRO-developed UItraBattery®, a supercharged lead-acid battery hybrid, to the world in a whole-of-system storage solution for the energy sector and beyond, and today launches its medium-scale solution.
UltraBattery’s many applications range from energy solutions for complex and large-scale grid systems, to home-based systems that harness and optimise a mix of traditional and renewable energy sources including solar, hydro and wind.
“Lead-acid batteries have been used widely since the 1800s, but UItraBattery completely changes the lead-acid paradigm,” Mr John Wood, CEO at Ecoult, said.
“Lead-acid chemistry really is the giant hiding in plain sight in the search for energy storage resources to support the integration of higher proportions of renewables in a whole of system approach.”
“The lead-acid battery is by far the world’s most ubiquitous energy storage chemistry. UltraBattery is the missing piece that allows lead-acid to excel in applications that require continuous high-rate cycling, and unlock the potential of all that energy storage,” Mr Wood explained.
“It’s an advanced, environmentally sustainable, safe and cost effective industrial-strength hybrid lead-acid battery and ultracapacitor housed in a single cell with a common electrolyte.”
“We’ve already proven UltraBattery in selected large scale megawatt installations in Australia and the US, and are now proud to make UltraBattery solutions generally available on a smaller scale. Today, we launch UltraFlex, our 25 kW medium-scale industrial, agricultural, off-grid and business solution,” Mr Wood said.
“UltraFlex will help revolutionise the way organisations around the world manage and optimise the mix of energy they use through capturing, storing and releasing power symmetrically and quickly.
This will enable them to integrate renewable energy and increase the reliability of grid systems and the efficiency of diesel generators for applications in the telecommunications, health, agriculture and tourism sectors,” Mr Wood added.
“We’ve already partnered with several businesses in Australia who have seen wonderful results in cost savings, reduced fuel consumption, renewable self-consumption, reliability and emissions reductions.
“We worked with the off-grid CedarVale Health Retreat in Kangaroo Valley, NSW, who have achieved close to zero diesel usage and close to 100% power from onsite solar and micro-hydro thanks to their impressive use of renewables and the power management provided by a single UltraFlex,” Mr Wood explained.
“We see broad scale adoption of UltraBattery for the support of grid and renewable applications across kW and MW scales,” he said. “We’ll soon launch a new residential UltraBattery product into the Australian market and announce a new megawatt scale partnership.”
“The end goal is to provide cost-effective storage to smooth and supplement clean but intermittent renewable energy generation around the world, and improve the quality of power produced,” Mr Wood concluded.
UltraFlex is being featured today at the All Energy Conference in Melbourne and will be available for sale through Ecoult and selected resellers.
UltraFlex takes lead-acid where it has never gone before:
UltraFlex is ideal for:
- extended longevity in partial-state-of-charge
- symmetric high-rate charge and discharge
- extremely high efficiency
Monitoring and control
- smoothing industrial and agricultural loads
- optimising generator efficiency
- integrating intermittent renewable generation
Every Ecoult product is monitored to individual battery level and is available anywhere anytime via web browsers and mobile devises. Our monitoring allows for dependable and reliable supply, plus historical usage, and configurable email or SMS alerts.
Powerful, safe and environmentally sustainable
UltraBattery:
About Ecoult
- cycles longer, outlasts and charges faster than most competitors
- has a great safety record
- is recyclable – in fact lead-acid batteries are the most successfully recycled product on the planet, with an impressive 98% of used lead-acid batteries recycled, compared to less than 20% of lithium-ion batteries. And where most battery types go to landfill or are ground into low-grade industrial sludge, used lead-acid batteries are 96% reformed into new lead-acid batteries.
Ecoult delivers complete energy storage solutions and modules powered by the breakthrough UltraBattery technology – a hybrid lead-acid energy storage device containing both an Ultracapacitor and a battery in a common electrolyte.
Ecoult’s storage solutions manage intermittencies, smooth power and shift energy in a safe, reliable and environmentally sound way – the energy storage of choice for grid ancillary services, wind and solar farms, remote microgrids, dual purpose and diesel microgrid efficiency applications. Ecoult is a subsidiary of US-based battery manufacturer East Penn Manufacturing, Inc.
Find out about UltraFlex and Ecoult’s revolutionary whole-of-system energy storage solutions at ecoult.com
For more information, images and interview opportunities please contact:
Samantha Lucia – Simply Science Pty Ltd – Communication and Public Relations
+61 (0)415 140 595 and/or [email protected]
The Giant hiding in Plain Sight – and its dual purpose
Lead-acid batteries have been around since the mid-1800s and are the oldest type of rechargeable batteries.
They are used prolifically in a number of applications including automotives, as backup power solutions for mobile phone towers and datacentres, high-availability settings like hospitals, and stand-alone power systems, such as remote communities, mines and tourist retreats.
However, until now lead-acid batteries have been considered old news rather than the go-to for high-performance technology needed in the new generation of energy storage applications for grid, renewable, and micro grid support.
The UltraBattery® breakthrough by CSIRO researchers led by Dr Lan Lam changed everything. It advanced the world’s most prevalent energy storage chemistry (lead-acid) for use in applications that need high rate charge acceptance and long life cycling in regimes where the battery is continually active in a partial state of charge.
Power-continuity in the world’s largest datacentres and telecommunication networks are assured by lead-acid batteries.
These batteries ride through any power failure until a generating asset picks up the load. It is a huge power capability (28 GW in the USA alone) that is maintained by a mature and sustainable industry with enormous manufacturing capability.
UltraBattery offers the potential to unlock and adapt this existing capability to also contribute to the new applications of active energy storage in two ways.
Firstly, by harnessing the lead-acid industry’s huge and environmentally sustainable manufacturing capability to support growth in adoption of UltraBattery.
Secondly, by adapting existing backup-only systems to provide a dual purpose: backup plus grid and renewable support.
Ecoult has substantial experience in MW scale active energy storage and is currently implementing its first large dual purpose site in the USA.
For more information and interview opportunities please contact:
Samantha Lucia – Simply Science Pty Ltd – Communication and Public Relations
+61 (0)415 140 595 and/or [email protected]
Giant hiding in plain sight revolutionising energy and renewables
Thursday 8 October 2015
As the world grapples with the challenge of providing reliable, cost effective and clean power to every person on the planet, a Sydney based company is set to revolutionise the energy sector and bolster renewables.
Ecoult brings the CSIRO-developed UItraBattery®, a supercharged lead-acid battery hybrid, to the world in a whole-of-system storage solution for the energy sector and beyond, and today launches its medium-scale solution.
UltraBattery’s many applications range from energy solutions for complex and large-scale grid systems, to home-based systems that harness and optimise a mix of traditional and renewable energy sources including solar, hydro and wind.
“Lead-acid batteries have been used widely since the 1800s, but UItraBattery completely changes the lead-acid paradigm,” Mr John Wood, CEO at Ecoult, said.
“Lead-acid chemistry really is the giant hiding in plain sight in the search for energy storage resources to support the integration of higher proportions of renewables in a whole of system approach.”
“The lead-acid battery is by far the world’s most ubiquitous energy storage chemistry. UltraBattery is the missing piece that allows lead-acid to excel in applications that require continuous high-rate cycling, and unlock the potential of all that energy storage,” Mr Wood explained.
“It’s an advanced, environmentally sustainable, safe and cost effective industrial-strength hybrid lead-acid battery and ultracapacitor housed in a single cell with a common electrolyte.”
“We’ve already proven UltraBattery in selected large scale megawatt installations in Australia and the US, and are now proud to make UltraBattery solutions generally available on a smaller scale. Today, we launch UltraFlex, our 25 kW medium-scale industrial, agricultural, off-grid and business solution,” Mr Wood said.
“UltraFlex will help revolutionise the way organisations around the world manage and optimise the mix of energy they use through capturing, storing and releasing power symmetrically and quickly.
This will enable them to integrate renewable energy and increase the reliability of grid systems and the efficiency of diesel generators for applications in the telecommunications, health, agriculture and tourism sectors,” Mr Wood added.
“We’ve already partnered with several businesses in Australia who have seen wonderful results in cost savings, reduced fuel consumption, renewable self-consumption, reliability and emissions reductions.
“We worked with the off-grid CedarVale Health Retreat in Kangaroo Valley, NSW, who have achieved close to zero diesel usage and close to 100% power from onsite solar and micro-hydro thanks to their impressive use of renewables and the power management provided by a single UltraFlex,” Mr Wood explained.
“We see broad scale adoption of UltraBattery for the support of grid and renewable applications across kW and MW scales,” he said. “We’ll soon launch a new residential UltraBattery product into the Australian market and announce a new megawatt scale partnership.”
“The end goal is to provide cost-effective storage to smooth and supplement clean but intermittent renewable energy generation around the world, and improve the quality of power produced,” Mr Wood concluded.
UltraFlex is being featured today at the All Energy Conference in Melbourne and will be available for sale through Ecoult and selected resellers.
UltraFlex takes lead-acid where it has never gone before:
UltraFlex is ideal for:
- extended longevity in partial-state-of-charge
- symmetric high-rate charge and discharge
- extremely high efficiency
Monitoring and control
- smoothing industrial and agricultural loads
- optimising generator efficiency
- integrating intermittent renewable generation
Every Ecoult product is monitored to individual battery level and is available anywhere anytime via web browsers and mobile devises. Our monitoring allows for dependable and reliable supply, plus historical usage, and configurable email or SMS alerts.
Powerful, safe and environmentally sustainable
UltraBattery:
About Ecoult
- cycles longer, outlasts and charges faster than most competitors
- has a great safety record
- is recyclable – in fact lead-acid batteries are the most successfully recycled product on the planet, with an impressive 98% of used lead-acid batteries recycled, compared to less than 20% of lithium-ion batteries. And where most battery types go to landfill or are ground into low-grade industrial sludge, used lead-acid batteries are 96% reformed into new lead-acid batteries.
Ecoult delivers complete energy storage solutions and modules powered by the breakthrough UltraBattery technology – a hybrid lead-acid energy storage device containing both an Ultracapacitor and a battery in a common electrolyte.
Ecoult’s storage solutions manage intermittencies, smooth power and shift energy in a safe, reliable and environmentally sound way – the energy storage of choice for grid ancillary services, wind and solar farms, remote microgrids, dual purpose and diesel microgrid efficiency applications. Ecoult is a subsidiary of US-based battery manufacturer East Penn Manufacturing, Inc.
Find out about UltraFlex and Ecoult’s revolutionary whole-of-system energy storage solutions at ecoult.com
For more information, images and interview opportunities please contact:
Samantha Lucia – Simply Science Pty Ltd – Communication and Public Relations
+61 (0)415 140 595 and/or [email protected]
The Giant hiding in Plain Sight – and its dual purpose
Lead-acid batteries have been around since the mid-1800s and are the oldest type of rechargeable batteries.
They are used prolifically in a number of applications including automotives, as backup power solutions for mobile phone towers and datacentres, high-availability settings like hospitals, and stand-alone power systems, such as remote communities, mines and tourist retreats.
However, until now lead-acid batteries have been considered old news rather than the go-to for high-performance technology needed in the new generation of energy storage applications for grid, renewable, and micro grid support.
The UltraBattery® breakthrough by CSIRO researchers led by Dr Lan Lam changed everything. It advanced the world’s most prevalent energy storage chemistry (lead-acid) for use in applications that need high rate charge acceptance and long life cycling in regimes where the battery is continually active in a partial state of charge.
Power-continuity in the world’s largest datacentres and telecommunication networks are assured by lead-acid batteries.
These batteries ride through any power failure until a generating asset picks up the load. It is a huge power capability (28 GW in the USA alone) that is maintained by a mature and sustainable industry with enormous manufacturing capability.
UltraBattery offers the potential to unlock and adapt this existing capability to also contribute to the new applications of active energy storage in two ways.
Firstly, by harnessing the lead-acid industry’s huge and environmentally sustainable manufacturing capability to support growth in adoption of UltraBattery.
Secondly, by adapting existing backup-only systems to provide a dual purpose: backup plus grid and renewable support.
Ecoult has substantial experience in MW scale active energy storage and is currently implementing its first large dual purpose site in the USA.
For more information and interview opportunities please contact:
Samantha Lucia – Simply Science Pty Ltd – Communication and Public Relations
+61 (0)415 140 595 and/or [email protected]
- Giant hiding in plain sight revolutionising energy and renewables
- Ecoult takes Australian UltraBattery® technology into the European grid of the future
http://www.ecoult.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Launching_the_Ecoult_UltraFlex_Fact-Sheet.pdf
Are they our super micro capacitors, i cant seem to find good solid connection to tie us to this properly
what do you think guys ...Raider do you no anything , theres so many links and branching stories thinking we all might need to check it right out unless someone knows more about it and can help ......
regards alanpro
Im wondering if we can analize these researched articles Ecoult...
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