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Solar storage from used EV batteries set for testing in Japan
Solar storage from used EV batteries set for testing in Japan
By Sophie Vorrath on 10 February 2014
The world’s first large-scale solar power storage system to incorporate used batteries from electric vehicles has been built in Japan.
The commercial-scale energy storage system has been developed and deployed at a 10MW solar farm in south western Japan, having been selected by Japan’s Ministry of Environment as a ‘model project’ to test the use of battery storage in conjunction with renewable energy.
The Hikari-no-Mori (‘Forest of Light’) solar farm was built by Sumitomo Corporation and six associate companies, when their mega-solar proposal won the city of Osaka’s 2010 public tender for ideas on a new use for a landfill site located on Yume-Shima Island, Osaka.
Sumitomo then created a joint venture company with Nissan Motors – 4R Energy Corporation – to investigate the re-purposing of used EV batteries. This led to the development and installation of a 600kw/400kWh prototype system, using sixteen used lithium-ion batteries from Nissan’s Leaf model EV.
The idea that the used battery from a hybrid or electrical car can be re-used for such purposes as the storage of renewable energy is an exciting one for the industry...
By Sophie Vorrath on 10 February 2014
The world’s first large-scale solar power storage system to incorporate used batteries from electric vehicles has been built in Japan.
The commercial-scale energy storage system has been developed and deployed at a 10MW solar farm in south western Japan, having been selected by Japan’s Ministry of Environment as a ‘model project’ to test the use of battery storage in conjunction with renewable energy.
The Hikari-no-Mori (‘Forest of Light’) solar farm was built by Sumitomo Corporation and six associate companies, when their mega-solar proposal won the city of Osaka’s 2010 public tender for ideas on a new use for a landfill site located on Yume-Shima Island, Osaka.
Sumitomo then created a joint venture company with Nissan Motors – 4R Energy Corporation – to investigate the re-purposing of used EV batteries. This led to the development and installation of a 600kw/400kWh prototype system, using sixteen used lithium-ion batteries from Nissan’s Leaf model EV.
The idea that the used battery from a hybrid or electrical car can be re-used for such purposes as the storage of renewable energy is an exciting one for the industry...
http://reneweconomy.com.au/2014/solar-storage-system-using-repurposed-ev-batteries-set-go-japan-46230
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