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Panasonic boosts energy storage battery system over 17kWh

Panasonic boosts energy storage battery system over 17kWh

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By Nick Flaherty



The Harbor Plus Smart Battery has 17.1 kilowatt hours (kWh) of capacity and provides a power output of up to 10 kilowatts (kW) for up to 5 minutes alongside solar panels.

“The solar industry faces the reality of certain maximum energy density, pushing the market to deliver innovative and disruptive solar solutions to a quickly growing consumer base,” said Dan Silver, vice president, Panasonic Eco Solutions North America. “We are excited to once again partner with Pika Energy to deliver an industry-leading solution in the Harbor Plus Smart Battery, outpacing competitors to expand solar power capacity and capability, ultimately providing customers with freedom from grid dependence.”

The solar-ready smart battery uses six Panasonic Lithium-Ion (Li-ion) battery modules connected in series for built-in redundancy. The robust design coupled with 17.1 kWh of usable energy and up to 10 kW of power can support homeowners for long-term grid outage and off-grid scenarios, and can also power heavy equipment such as well pumps and air conditioning units.

This is paired with the Pika Energy Island single inverter for grid-tied and off-grid solar-plus-storage and uses a self-supply mode, which maximizes self-consumption of stored energy captured by solar panels such as Panasonic’s HiT solar modules to reduce the home’s dependence on the grid

A zero-export Mode, a subset of self-supply mode that prevents any solar energy from transferring to the grid, enables homeowners to reduce grid dependence as well as remain in compliance in states where exporting solar power to the grid is prohibited, like Hawaii, while a Time-of-Use Capability helps homeowners who live in areas with time-of-use rate policies, such as California, efficiently manage solar power and reduce costs with an optimized schedule that reduces or eliminates grid use during peak-rate periods 

The Clean-backup Mode stores clean solar energy in the smart battery for use when the grid is disrupted. The load transfer is instantaneous, taking 16ms, while a Priority-backup Mode charges the smart battery from the grid at the full capacity of the system, allowing homeowners to prepare for an expected grid outage such as in the event of an impending storm.

Dark-start Capability allows the smart batteries to commission without the grid and restart using only solar power should the batteries exhaust their reserve energy, compared to other solar storage systems that require on-site service from a technician to jump-start dead batteries.

www.pika-energy.com

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