UniEnergy Technologies

UniEnergy Technologies
LLP
Industry Energy
Founded 2012 5 years ago
Headquarters Mukilteo, Washington
Key people
 Gary Yang
President and CEO
Products Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries
Number of employees
 52
Website
The 1 MW 4 MWh containerized vanadium flow battery owned by Avista Utilities and manufactured by UniEnergy Technologies.

UniEnergy Technologies (UET) is a U.S. vanadium redox flow battery manufacturer in Mukilteo, Washington, which manufactures megawatt-scale Energy storage systems for utility, commercial and industrial customers. The company was founded in 2012 by president and CEO Gary Yang and CTO Liyu Li to commercialize a new Vanadium electrolyte formulation the pair had developed while working at PNNL. The new formulation, a mixed-acid solution, was patented by PNNL and the patent was licensed to UET for commercialization.[1] The mixed-acid vanadium electrolyte allows for a wider temperature range for operations, and double the energy density of the traditional vanadium electrolyte.[2]

The company has designed a megawatt-scale containerized flow battery using this new electrolyte for the purpose of allowing rapid deployment, manufacturing repeatability and lower costs.[3] The company also employs an R&D team which works to make advances on the electrolyte chemistry and stack design.[2]

UET has a subsidiary in Germany, Vanadis Power which provides sales and services for Europe. The company has partnerships with Bolong New Materials, a vanadium electrolyte manufacturer, Rongke Power, the vanadium flow battery stack manufacturer.[4] In December 2015 the company completed their B round funding series which included a major investment from Orix Corp.[5]

Products

UniEnergy sells a 500 kW, 2 MWh fully integrated AC Battery called a Uni.System. Each AC battery is capable of 600 kW AC peak power, 2.2 MWh AC peak energy. Each Uni.System is made of four DC batteries, each housed in a 20 ft shipping container and a 5th shipping container that holds the Power Conversion System (inverter and rectifier) and the transformer to deliver AC power. This product is sized to be a building block for utility–scale deployments which need multi-Megawatt installations or larger commercial and industrial customers.[6] The company is planning to begin deployments of a smaller 100 kW system in 2016 with a deployment planned for NY.[7]

References

  1. ↑ UniEnergy Technologies Management. Accessed 21 Jan 2016.
  2. 1 2 Miller, Kelsey. UniEnergy Technologies Goes from Molecules to Megawatts, Clean Tech Alliance, 7 July 2014. Accessed 21 Jan 2016.
  3. ↑ Wesoff, Eric, St. John, Jeff. Largest Capacity Flow Battery in North America and EU is Online, Greentech Media, June 2015. Accessed 21 Jan 2016.
  4. ↑ UniEnergy Technologies Background. Accessed 21 Jan 2016.
  5. ↑ Lerman, Rachel. Industrial battery maker UniEnergy pulls in $25M from investors, Seattle Times, 28 Dec 2015. Accessed 21 Jan 2016
  6. ↑ UniEnergy Technologies Products. Accessed 21 Jan 2016.
  7. ↑ UniEnergy Technologies Member Spotlight NY-BEST. Accessed 21 Jan 2016.
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