Battery-Electric Surge: ESS Scales Up in Maritime
Ask the right government department in any G7 state and you’ll find funding to put battery power for your vessel. Beyond funds, new battery makers and system integrators are ironing out safety issues, and a growing number of giga-sized cell factories offer hope that costs will fall for marine energy storage, as ESS choice grows. Efforts are also underway to recycle rare earth elements and to augment or greenify staggeringly high plant electricity inputs. Apart from funding, the drivers of change include constraints on shipping in Emissions Free Areas like the fjords of Norway…
Charging Ahead: Brent Perry & his Sterling PBES Team Drive Maritime Battery Tech
Brent Perry, CEO of Sterling PBES is a 40+ year veteran of the marine business, and one of the pioneers in delivering battery solutions to boats and ships at sea. Please give us a by the numbers look at Sterling PBES today?Right now we are sitting in a position where we had anticipated delivering somewhere in the neighborhood of $20-21 million worth of product, which is about 35 megawatt hours. And we’re scheduled to blow past that to almost $40 million. And we’re looking at the following year as a year of over a $100 million…
PBES, Høglund Marine Join Forces
PBES and Høglund Marine Automation today announced a partnership agreement to industrial quality energy storage for hybrid and fully electric commercial marine vessels. The partnership agreement underscores the on-going green shift that is now occurring in the commercial marine industry. Leading marine controls and automation company Høglund sees the future. Commercial vessels increasingly rely on automation in day-to-day operation. In keeping with their cutting edge thinking and innovative designs, adding energy storage maximizes efficiency potential and environmental stewardship together.
PBES Sets Up Danish Operations in Copenhagen
Plan B Energy Storage (PBES) announced today the creation of PBES Denmark ApS. PBES Denmark will be the cornerstone of the energy storage industry in Denmark, delivering local jobs and focussing on bringing energy storage systems to marine and grid solutions in Denmark. PBES is the industry leader in MWh grid and marine solutions, delivering the most powerful and safe systems in the world today, supported by the best service and support group in the energy storage industry. PBES…
Norwegian Maritime Authority Approves PBES Lithium Energy Storage
Plan B Energy Storage (PBES) announced today the approval of PBES marine energy storage system for use in electric and hybrid vessels in Norway. Trondheim based PBES is the only lithium-ion battery manufacturer to use the proprietary CellCoolTM cooling and E-VentTM ventilation systems. The PBES energy storage system was tested at PBES’ Trondheim facility on June 17, 2016. The test attempted to force overcharge the batteries into a thermal runaway situation and was prevented by the PBES safety systems. The batteries passed all tests with no uncontrolled thermal event, no fire and no explosion.
PBES Unveils Fireproof Lithium Battery
Lithium Pioneers from PBES today announced the worlds first ever commercialized thermal runaway suppression system. The historic challenge for lithium batteries has always been that they catch fire. No More. In lithium battery-powered goods such as laptop computers and electric cars and in larger systems like grid energy storage, one of the most significant barriers to entry in the marketplace has been the fundamental safety of the batteries. PBES has solved this problem. The…
