Smartville, a developer of vitality storage programs, has deployed its first commercially out there product, the MOAB vitality storage system, on the College of California San Diego’s Library Annex.
MOAB is a “second-life” vitality storage system that integrates and controls repurposed electrical automobile battery packs from completely different producers at various ranges of well being in a single unified system. MOAB provides EV batteries a second life with ultra-low carbon storage that delivers a excessive worth per kilowatt hour.
UC San Diego will use Smartville’s MOAB system to retailer photo voltaic vitality from a 200 kW rooftop photo voltaic array to cut back demand on the native utility grid after sundown and keep away from peak electrical energy charges. The five hundred kWh system additionally gives 48 hours of emergency backup energy.
“This represents our first step in bringing a very scalable EV battery repurposing answer to market and offering a domestically manufactured vitality storage product to satisfy California’s and the nation’s infrastructure wants,” says Smartville CEO and Co-founder Antoni Tong. “To speed up our subsequent industrial milestone, we are actually talking with enterprise traders thinking about advancing worthwhile, scalable, low-carbon, low-cost options to our sustainable future.”
