The high-standard manufacturing process of lithium batteries is as important as the design and materials -Lithium - Ion Battery Equipment
Ian Gregory, general manager of the North American region of the German independent technical survey and quality assurance service organization Berlin Prudential Photovoltaic Institute (PIBerlin), has announced the launch of lithium-ion battery production quality assessment services. He said that with the growing demand for lithium-ion batteries in the solar and energy storage industries, high-standard manufacturing processes for lithium-ion batteries are as important as design and materials.
Gregory said that the solar power module quality assessment service provided by the agency can widely meet the needs of existing customers, and has begun to provide lithium-ion battery production quality assessment services for battery energy storage system projects. He pointed out that, so far, the Prudential Institute for Photovoltaic Research in Berlin (PIBerlin) has evaluated about 90GW of solar power modules from 125 different manufacturers.(Lithium - Ion Battery Equipment)
He said, "Most of our customers are large developers, utility companies, investment banks, and they usually care about the long-term performance of solar power generation components, so they are also concerned about the long-term performance and reliability of battery energy storage systems, and ask us to make the scope of services Expanding to the field of energy storage is a natural extension. If a solar power generation component fails, it will affect the operation of the solar power generation system; similarly, if a certain battery fails to work, it will also have an adverse impact on the battery energy storage system. We realize No other organization in the stationary energy storage business can independently track the quality of battery storage systems."
According to Gregory, one of the lessons learned from the evaluation work of solar power generation modules at the Praudel Photovoltaic Institute in Berlin (PIBerlin) is that the importance of quality can be roughly divided into two categories: high-quality materials and high-quality manufacturing.
"If one of these is not met, the product produced may be unreliable, unsafe, and not perform as desired," he said.
Benjamin Sternkopf, an energy storage expert at the Prader Institute for Photovoltaics in Berlin (PI Berlin), pointed out that grid operators and asset owners have a better understanding of the complexities of battery energy storage system applications today than they did five years ago.
"Between 2010 and 2015, a lot of battery energy storage systems were deployed around the world, but very few people thought about their real use in advance," said Sternkopf. The role played is already taken for granted, so its advantage is also obvious: when the sun or wind is sufficient, they will generate electricity. For energy storage systems, it is not so simple, because in addition to storing electricity and releasing electricity, many People still don’t know what to do, so there needs to be better understanding and familiarity with how to use energy storage systems in an economically viable way.”
He pointed out that energy storage systems are often used for power applications, such as providing frequency response and other ancillary services, not just for backup power, such as storing the power of solar power generation facilities during the day for use during peak power demand at night or for use. Energy market arbitrage.
Although energy-based applications are growing, as seen in some U.S. power purchase agreements (PPAs) for solar power plants with 4-hour battery storage systems, battery storage has largely grown rapidly. Adapted to the advantages and benefits offered by battery technology.
IanGregory and Benjamin Sternkopf also elaborated on some of the metrics that are being evaluated by the new service offered by the PUD Institute for Photovoltaics in Berlin (PIBerlin) and some of the due diligence processes involved. While inspections of battery energy storage system assembly processes play an important role, quality assurance needs to go down to the cell level, which includes inspections of the production process for each battery product.
One insight that may have been borrowed from the solar power module industry is that the assortment of higher priced products and manufacturers is not as reliable as might be expected, they said.
IanGregory said, “We see some tier 2 solar module manufacturers producing excellent quality products, while some tier 1 manufacturers produce relatively poor quality solar modules. So, just because the manufacturers are larger and are considered more It is wrong to be more powerful and more reliable, which does not mean that its product quality is high-quality and reliable.”
Gregory said that the solar power module quality assessment service provided by the agency can widely meet the needs of existing customers, and has begun to provide lithium-ion battery production quality assessment services for battery energy storage system projects. He pointed out that, so far, the Prudential Institute for Photovoltaic Research in Berlin (PIBerlin) has evaluated about 90GW of solar power modules from 125 different manufacturers.(Lithium - Ion Battery Equipment)
He said, "Most of our customers are large developers, utility companies, investment banks, and they usually care about the long-term performance of solar power generation components, so they are also concerned about the long-term performance and reliability of battery energy storage systems, and ask us to make the scope of services Expanding to the field of energy storage is a natural extension. If a solar power generation component fails, it will affect the operation of the solar power generation system; similarly, if a certain battery fails to work, it will also have an adverse impact on the battery energy storage system. We realize No other organization in the stationary energy storage business can independently track the quality of battery storage systems."
According to Gregory, one of the lessons learned from the evaluation work of solar power generation modules at the Praudel Photovoltaic Institute in Berlin (PIBerlin) is that the importance of quality can be roughly divided into two categories: high-quality materials and high-quality manufacturing.
"If one of these is not met, the product produced may be unreliable, unsafe, and not perform as desired," he said.
Benjamin Sternkopf, an energy storage expert at the Prader Institute for Photovoltaics in Berlin (PI Berlin), pointed out that grid operators and asset owners have a better understanding of the complexities of battery energy storage system applications today than they did five years ago.
"Between 2010 and 2015, a lot of battery energy storage systems were deployed around the world, but very few people thought about their real use in advance," said Sternkopf. The role played is already taken for granted, so its advantage is also obvious: when the sun or wind is sufficient, they will generate electricity. For energy storage systems, it is not so simple, because in addition to storing electricity and releasing electricity, many People still don’t know what to do, so there needs to be better understanding and familiarity with how to use energy storage systems in an economically viable way.”
He pointed out that energy storage systems are often used for power applications, such as providing frequency response and other ancillary services, not just for backup power, such as storing the power of solar power generation facilities during the day for use during peak power demand at night or for use. Energy market arbitrage.
Although energy-based applications are growing, as seen in some U.S. power purchase agreements (PPAs) for solar power plants with 4-hour battery storage systems, battery storage has largely grown rapidly. Adapted to the advantages and benefits offered by battery technology.
IanGregory and Benjamin Sternkopf also elaborated on some of the metrics that are being evaluated by the new service offered by the PUD Institute for Photovoltaics in Berlin (PIBerlin) and some of the due diligence processes involved. While inspections of battery energy storage system assembly processes play an important role, quality assurance needs to go down to the cell level, which includes inspections of the production process for each battery product.
One insight that may have been borrowed from the solar power module industry is that the assortment of higher priced products and manufacturers is not as reliable as might be expected, they said.
IanGregory said, “We see some tier 2 solar module manufacturers producing excellent quality products, while some tier 1 manufacturers produce relatively poor quality solar modules. So, just because the manufacturers are larger and are considered more It is wrong to be more powerful and more reliable, which does not mean that its product quality is high-quality and reliable.”
