India continues to ramp up interest in ESS technology

India signalled its growing interest in energy storage systems during a week when its prime minister visited Tesla and a firm unveiled a new lead-acid battery.

During a tour of the US firm’s automotive campus, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi showed interest in Tesla’s Powerwall, especially for India’s remote rural areas.

India’s Ministry of External Affairs said the main takeaway was the technology behind long-term storage batteries, and Modi had been ‘very keen’ to see how India could use the battery technology to ‘leapfrog development in India’, claimed the website.

Tesla began shipping its 7kWh Powerwalls to pilot customers in North America, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Australia this week.

Meanwhile Relicell has launched a proprietary gel-based maintenance-free battery, designed for renewable energy storage, especially for home use in India’s punishing weather conditions.

Relicell is the battery brand of Greenvision Technologies, an energy storage solutions firm headquartered in Bangalore, India.

The batteries use a lead-calcium-tin-silver alloy, a synthetic separator with phosphoric acid added to the electrolyte to improve life cycle.

The batteries are available in 12V, 35 Ah to 12V and 200 Ah options and come in three variants: Solar Gel for solar applications, Ultra Gel for home inverters and deep cycle UPS applications.

Founder and Managing Director of Greenvision Technologies Biju Bruno said: "The largest adoption of these batteries is likely to be in home inverters and solar energy storage devices, while batteries used to store solar energy will be able to operate under very hot conditions and even in a state of partial charge."

Back in August ACME Cleantech Solutions launched the first power back-up storage solution in India. The lithium-ion-based EcoGrid Energy Storage System was designed for homes and small commercial units.

At the start of the year, US energy storage system developer SunEdison moved into the Indian market when it bought 1,000 Imergy Power Systems ESP 30 systems.

SunEdison bought the vanadium flow battery technology to build microgrids to store solar energy in rural India. SunEdison aims to develop 5,000 microgrids by 2020 to store solar energy for 20 million people, with the first 1,000 to be developed within three years.

Sacred Sun was awarded "China energy storage industry's most influential enterprises"

On 13th, May, 2015, the 5th China International Energy Storage Conference 2015 was held in Shanghai, from the United States, Canada, Japan, Korea, Australia, Britain, Germany, medium-sized countries and regions more than 300 representatives. At the meeting, the 2015 China energy storage industry’s most influential poll results were announced, Sacred Sun was awarded "China energy storage industry's most influential enterprises"; Meanwhile the General Assembly announced that the energy storage application branch of Chinese energy storage chemical and physical power industry association was officially established, Sacred Sun was elected as vice chairman of the unit.

    Mr. Kong Lingcheng, the director of Sacred Sun new energy R & D department make a keynote speech at the meeting, Present a " Energy storage power station is zero emission, distributed energy" concept, to extend the storage system from power generation, transmission and distribution to the peak power or peak load shifting applications.

    After meeting, Mr. Song Bin, the CEO of Sacred Sun accept reporter of China Energy News to interview

Energy Storage Industry will Present Explosive Growth in Future 2-3 Years

     Nowadays, advanced energy storage technology has enabled the intermittent energy sources such as solar energy and wind energy become mainstream energy. Through storing solar energy and wind energy, the energy storage system could provide safe and reliable electricity for household, building or factory. It has influenced the distribution of power grid and will raise a revolution on power grid design in the coming future. With its efficient and environmental characteristics, energy storage is playing a critical role in the development of renewable energy.

    In the coming years, market demand for energy storage will keep rising. Under such condition, solar/wind power stations, distributed power supply systems, micro-grid power plants, and smart power grids will be increasingly widely applied in various areas. China’s energy storage industry is seeing tremendous development opportunities.

    As a leading industrial lead acid battery supplier in China, Sacred Sun also provides energy storage solutions such as intelligent street light, energy storage power plant, off-grid & micro-grid new energy power plant, and household solutions.

    For more information about our solutions, welcome to visit our official website.

Top 10 New Energy Buildings in the World

1. China’s First 0 Energy Consumption Ecological Building--- Suntech Research and Development Center
Energy source: solar energy
Location: Jiangsu, China

2. World’s First 0 Energy Consumption Antarctic Station---Elizabeth Antarctic Station
Energy source: solar energy + wind energy
Location: South Pole

3. Dubai Rotating Skyscraper
Energy source: solar energy + wind energy
Location: Dubai

4. World’s First “0 Carbon City” --- Masdar City
Energy source: solar energy + wind energy
Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

5. Google Headquarter
Energy source: solar energy
Location: California, the United States

6. London Super Skyscraper Building--- New Town Tower
Energy source: solar energy
Location: California, the United States

7. Building of California Academy of Sciences
Energy source: solar energy
Location: California, the United States

8. French 0 Energy Consumption Office Building
Energy source: solar energy
Location: Paris, France

9. Solar Ark--- Sanyo Building (belong to Panadonic currently)
Energy source: solar energy
Location: Gifu, Japan

10. China’s First Media Wall Made of Solar Panels---Jingya Hotel
Energy source: solar energy
Location: Beijing, China

Off-grid PV System

1. The Composition of Off-grid PV System

    Figure 1 is the schematic diagram of a typical off-grid PV system.

Figure 1. Composition of Off-grid PV System

2. Major Components of Off-grid PV System

   1). Solar-cell Array. It is the core component of the system, convert solar energy into electric energy. The solar cell modules are installed in series or in parallel in accordance with the requirements of different systems.

   2). Battery. Store the electric energy generated by solar-cell array so as to supply power at the following conditions: light deficient conditions, nights, or when load demand is higher than power supply of the array. The most widely applied batteries in PV systems are lead acid batteries.

   3). PV Controller. It is the core control section of the whole system, controlling the charge/discharge of batteries and the electrical power output of the array and battery pack. Currently, there are mainly two widely applied control modes: PWM and MPPT. The PWM has higher control efficiency but relatively lower utilization rate to solar modules; while MPPT has relatively lower control efficiency but higher utilization rate to solar modules. In most cases, PWM mode is applied in system with smaller power, and MPPT mode is applied in system with lager power, especially when system power is higher than KW level.

   4). Inverter. If AC Load is included in the system, inverter is needed to concert direct current from solar-cell array or battery pack into needed alternate current.

Qufu: Japanese Experts Come to Sacred Sun to Help Its Product Upgrading

 Qilu News (May 11, 2015):  To speed up the upgrading project of Sacred Sun’s high-energy, environment-friendly and long-life lead carbon batteries (energy storage battery), Japanese experts of Furukawa were invited to Sacred Sun to offer technical training and guidance recently.

  The experts have explained advanced manufacturing technologies and crafts of the battery as while as management philosophy and patterns of lean production through training seminars and site instructions.

    On the one hand, Sacred Sun has obtained advanced research, manufacture and management concepts in battery industry, which could facilitate it to improve its products’ technology content and core competitiveness; on the other hand, Sacred Sun has further extended its talent supply-demand chain, which has made great contributions to its talent cultivation and team building.

Sacred Sun has Broken Through Cost Predicament of Energy Storage System with Its Leading Technology

On May 10th, 2015, the 4th China International Energy Storage Station Congress (ESSC 2015) is held in Shenzhen, China. Shandong Sacred Sun Power Sources Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as the "Sacred Sun") was invited to attend the congress, and was awarded the Best Supplier of energy storage batteries. Mr. Sui Yanbo, deputy General Manager of Sacred Sun, has delivered a keynote speech "Commercial Application Solutions of Energy Storage Systems with FCP Lead Carbon Batteries” at the congress.
    Sacred Sun's FCP lead carbon battery, which has imported related technology of Furukawa , could achieve more than 4200 cycles at 70% DOD. Provided that one day one cycle, battery service life could up to 10 years. The cost per kw h of energy storage battery (storage battery procurement costs divided by the capacity of the battery can be released in life) was reduced to about 0.5 Yuan, almost close to the pumped storage. In addition, the charge-discharge conversion efficiency of the battery could reach up to 87%, and the maximum efficiency of related energy storage system could reach 80%.

Graphene Battery

Graphene’s huge specific surface area enables it to carry more li-ions and get/loss li-ions more quickly, therefore provides the essential physical foundation for battery to have bigger capacity and quicker charge/discharge speed.

   Battery with graphene as negative electrode has very good charge/discharge rate but very bad cycle life. Researchers are always trying to find an appropriate negative electrode material so as to combine advantages such as fast charging/discharging, long cycle life, high energy density and low cost together.

    Recently, Spain’s El Mundo has reported that Spain’s university has developed a graphene battery which has combined all the above advantages together. It will be first tested in a German’s automotive enterprise.

    On condition that the report is true, this battery will be quite promising. If the recharging time is as short as refueling time, then the charging stations could take the place of gas stations, and electric vehicles could take the place of fuel vehicles.

Conclusion

    Everything real is rational. The lead acid battery and lithium batteryhttp://www.sacredsun.com/productsdetaillithium_125_125_125_125.html are still dominating the market of electric vehicles, not because the manufacturers are stupid, but for other technologies are not mature or lack supporting industrial chain.

    We need to be patient to wait for the next breakthrough in this area.

Flow Battery

 Flow battery belongs to ordinary chemical battery. Its utilization rate of active materials is improved through storing positive electrolyte and negative electrolyte separately.

      Due to the limit of materials and the concentration of the electrolyte, the flow battery didn’t achieve high energy density in past years. It can be applied in energy storage power stations, but not available on vehicles.

     Recently, Dr. Yet-Ming Chiang, scientist of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has invented a semi-solid lithium flow battery. He has made innovations on material and electrolyte concentration, which enables the battery to reach applicable level on energy density and power density. This battery is still in the laboratory stage.

    NanoFlowcell AG has launched an automobile with flow battery, which seems have reached very high energy density in accordance with its technical index. However, its facticity remains to be verified.

    Compared with previous hydrogen fuel battery and metal fuel battery, flow battery is more feasible. Once the laboratory technology enters into mass production period, it will change the electric vehicle industry dramatically. With flow battery, electric vehicle could run further, become cheaper, and charge faster (charge through power grid or replace electrolyte).

High Temperature Battery Assists the Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction

• High-temperature (HT) valve-regulated lead acid batteries manufactured by Sacred Sun are specially developed for standby power-supply systems and energy storage systems in high temperature environment. With excellent properties such as high temperature resistance, long service life, and reliability, HT batteries can be applied in BTS with environment temperature above 30 ℃ all the year round, BTS with frequent power failure, BTS in remote areas, solar energy storage systems, and wind energy storage systems.

   

      Sacred Sun’s HT batteries have been widely applied in Indoor and outdoor BTS of Jiangsu Telecom, Hainan Telecom, Hubei Telecom, Guangdong Unicom, Guangdong Mobile, Hunan Mobile, Yunnan Unicom, etc.

   

  

      In BTS with HT batteries, the temperature of air conditioners is improved from 25 ℃ to 35℃. After tracing the energy-saving effect of HT batteries in BTS for 1 year, we have found that the annual average electricity-saving rate of stations with high-temperature batteries has reached 63.9%.

  	BTS with HT Batteries	BTS with Ordinary Batteries
  Architectural Material of BTS	Brick	Brick
  Area of BTS	20 m2	20 m2
  Ambient Temperature of BTS	35℃	25℃
  Total Power of Air Conditioners	3.0kw	3.0kw
  Load of BTS	39A	38A
  Battery Type	2V500Ah: 1 set	2V500Ah: 1 set
  Daily Average Power Consumption of Air Conditioners	5.32 kwh /day	14.74 kwh /day
  Amount of Energy Saving (kwh)	9.42 kwh /day
  Energy Saving Rate	63.9%

      We assume that the air conditioner power consumption of the 3 three operators (China Mobile, China Telcom and China Unicom) is 30 billion kwh/year, then they can save 9.5 billion kwh/year. On account of the above data, HT batteries have demonstrated remarkable economic benefit and social benefit.

Capacity of Global Distributed Energy Storage Systems May Increase by 10 Times in Future 3 Years

    In accordance with data from Navigant Research---a well-known American market research firm, the capacity of global distributed energy storage systems will achieve 276 MW by 2015.

    With the increasing support from governments and increasing energy storage demands from grid operators and electric power companies, the capacity of global distributed energy storage systems may increase by 10 times and up to approximately 2400 MW by 2018.

    The report also pointed out that influenced by the rapid development of battery technologies, the distributed energy storage market will also see rapid growth in recent years. Meanwhile, the popularization of PV, EV, EV charging stations, and household energy networks will generate new demands for distributed energy storage systems.

    It is expected that by 2024, the capacity of global distributed energy storage market may increase to 12,000 MW. However, to achieve this objective, researchers must overcome difficulties on cost control, software development, control system design, and integration technology optimization.

Application Characteristics of Pure Lead Battery

（1）High volumetric and gravimetric specific energy;
（2）Low self-discharge rate and long storage life;
（3）Long service life and superb circulation ability;
（4）Wide applicability: pure lead battery can be applied in the range of -40℃ ~ +80℃;
（5）Strong recharging capability after deep discharging;
（6）Both fast charging and intermittent charging are acceptable;
（7）Both float charge and cycle application can be achieved;
（8）Saving space is also a remarkable advantage of pure lead batteries.
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Horizontal Placement Plan of Carrier-Grade Battery

• As a newly developed battery, carrier-grade battery possesses brand new appearance design and structural design. To achieve better performance, horizontal placement is adopted in installation. Therefore, we have designed the following new battery rack to realize the fully horizontal placement of the carrier-grade battery.

  48V200/300 Battery Rack: simple, convenient, practical, economical, and space saving. The outgoing lines are on the same side of the battery rack, which is convenient to maintain.

  

  System Assembly Drawing

  

  Assembly Drawing of Battery Rack

  

  Partial Explosion Effect of the Battery Rack

  48V400~1000 Battery Rack: simple, convenient, practical, economical, and space saving. The outgoing lines are on the same side of the battery rack, which is convenient to maintain.

   

  System Assembly Drawing

  

  Explosion Effect of the Battery Rack

  Currently, the carrier-grade battery racks (include horizontal placement racks and vertical placement racks) have been widely applied in China Mobile, China Unicom, China Telecom and China Power, especially in the II level batteries of China Mobile. Customer feedback for our racks is quite favorable.

  Technical Difficulties in the Development of Battery Racks

  Entire-palletdesign for GFM-300 battery rack

  

  Special-shapedmaterials such as supporting plates and protect plates of GFM-500 need to beprocessed with special molds.

  

  Protect plates need to be kept away from the drop direction of leakage, and reinforced with insulation nails.

  

Sacred Sun: Energy Storage System of FCP Lead Carbon Batteries will Assist the Development of Energy Storage Industry

On March 16th, 2015, the second working conference of “13th Five Year Plan” on the development of national energy storage industry was held at Tsinghua University. Experts have fully discussed 7 major topics and 33 subtopics on technologies, development objectives, tasks, and overall arrangement of energy storage industry.

    Aiming at the cost dilemma happened in the scale development of energy storage industry, Sui Yanbo, deputy general manager of Sacred Sun, has indicated that FCP lead carbon batteries could improve the development of energy storage industry with its advanced technology and less cost per kw.h.

    Sacred Sun has brought in advanced FCP lead carbon battery technology from Japanese company Furukawa Battery Co., Ltd. in 2014. Such kind of battery possesses advantages such as superlong service life, better charge acceptance, excellent PSOC property, modularized system design and installation, etc.

    At last, Mr. Sui said that Sacred Sun is willing to cooperate with experts responsible for the major research projects of “13th Five Year Plan” on the development of energy storage industry, and make greater contributions to the energy revolution of our country.

The World is Entering “Aluminum” Battery Era

Recently, ChineseAmerican scientist Dai Hongjie has developed a high- performance aluminum battery which is suitable for commercial applications. Smartphones with such kind of batteries can be fully charged within 1 minute and without capacity loss within 7500 chargedischarge cycles. On the strength of its faster charging, longer service life, and lower cost, it is very possible for aluminum batteries to replace Lithium-ion batteries and alkaline batteries in the future.

    In the past decades, researchers are always trying to develop economical aluminum batteries, but appropriate positive materials and electrolyte materials are too difficult to find.

    In accordance with the report from American’s Science Daily website on April 6, negative electrode (aluminum material), positive electrode (graphite), and electrolyte (ionic liquid) of aluminum battery are placed in a soft bag made of aluminum foil and covered by flexible macromolecules.

     “This newly developed rechargeable aluminum battery is much safer than traditional Li-ion battery. Li-ion battery has the risk of explosion, while aluminum battery is safe on this aspect. In addition, to fully charge a smartphone with Li-ion battery, several hours are needed, while for smartphone with aluminum battery, one minute is enough.”

    Compared with the service life of other aluminum batteries (approximately 100 charge-discharge cycles) and Li-ion batteries (approximately 1000 charge-discharge cycles), the service life of this new aluminum battery (7500 charge-discharge cycles without capacity loss) is really amazing.

    Another distinguishing characteristic of this new aluminum battery is its flexibility, which enables it to be applied on flexible electronic instruments. Cheaper, safer, greener, and more flexible, this aluminum battery is a perfect alternative for traditional alkaline batteries and li-ion batteries.

    The only deficiency of this new aluminum battery is its voltage, which is only half of traditional li-ion batteries. Dai Hongjie planned to improve its voltage and energy density through improving the performance of positive materials.

What’s the classification of battery?

In accordance with electrolyte, batteries can be divided into: alkaline battery, acid battery, neutral battery and organic electrolyte battery.

In accordance with working principle and storage mode, batteries can be divided into primary battery and secondary (storage) battery.

In accordance with positive and negative electrode materials, batteries can be divided into Zinc series battery, Nickel series battery, Lead series battery, Lithium series battery, Manganese dioxide series battery, and Air (oxygen) series battery.

Sacred Sun Holds Groundbreaking Ceremony for Its New Lead-Carbon Battery Project

On March 16, 2015, Sacred Sun has held the groundbreaking ceremony for the Phase II Construction of “Move and Expansion Project of New Lead-acid Battery Production” at the Sacred Sun Industrial Park. This project is built for the subsequent manufacturing of Sacred Sun’s new high-energy, environment-friendly and long-life lead carbon batteries (energy storage battery and power battery). Related company leaders, leaders of the contractor, and some employees have participated in the groundbreaking ceremony. Li Shuhua, chairman of Sacred Sun’s Labor Union, has presided over the ceremony.

Sacred Sun’s General Manager Gao Yunkui has descripted the project overview at the ceremony.

This project will be accomplished within 2 years (construction area 26,000 m2).With a total investment of 210 million RMB, the production capacity of the project is expected to reach 2 million kAVh. After the completion of this project, annual production capacity of Sacred Sun will reach 6 million kAVh.

Sacred Sun will sponsor the ESSC 2015

On May 10–12, 2015, the 4th China International Energy Storage Station Congress (ESSC 2015) will be held at the Grand Hyatt Shenzhen Hotel in Shenzhen, China. It is predicted that over 800 professionals of energy storage will be present at the conference. As a leading industrial lead acid battery supplier in China, Sacred Sun will attend this conference as a sponsor.

Founded in 1991, Shandong Sacred Sun Power Sources Co., ltd. (for short Sacred Sun) is awarded as national high-tech enterprise in 2008 and is listed on the SME board of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in May 2011 (stock code 002580). Up to now, Sacred Sun possesses a provincial academician workstation, a postdoctoral scientific research workstation, and its technical center is awarded as National Enterprise Technology Center  in 2014. Sacred Sun is dedicated and specialized in designing, manufacturing and marketing lead acid batteries , lithium ion batteries  and new energy system integration solutions  which are applicable in energy storage, standby and motive power applications.

Adhering to the concept of “Integration Creates Future Energy”, Sacred Sun is dedicated in developing itself into a top-ranking solution supplier of energy storage systems.  We have successfully provided system integration solutions for customers from various countries, such as Pakistan Telenor BTS SWAP project, Indonesia PLTS off-grid power plants project, Eurotunnel Project, China Mobile South BTS IDC Computer Room Project, etc.

To enhance international cooperation, Sacred Sun has signed strategic cooperation  agreement with Japanese company Furukawa on cutting-edge FCP lead carbon battery in June 2014. Currently, the FCP lead carbon batteries produced by Sacred Sun have been successfully applied in our energy storage projects.
Attending the ESSC 2015 will not only enable Sacred Sun to catch up with the development of Chinese energy storage industry, but also help Sacred Sun to raise its prestige in the area.