The Chinese manufacturer has unveiled a 100 kWh scalable energy storage cabinet for the European market. The company plans to bring a full portfolio of commercial and industrial (C&I) energy storage to the continent soon.
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TCL SunPower has launched a new hybrid energy storage cabinet for the commercial and industrial (C&I) segment in Europe.
The X5 has a base unit rated at 50 kW/100 kWh and scaled to 400 kWh by connecting up to four units in parallel. TCL SunPower’s new C&I cabinet integrates a 50 kW inverter and is delivered as a factory-assembled, pre-wired solution, which the manufacturer claims can reduce installation costs by up to 60% compared with systems assembled on site.
The cabinet is 1.9 m tall, has a 1.37 m2 footprint and weighs 1,200 kg. The X5 is rated IP66 for the inverter and IP 55 for the cabinet and operates at temperatures from – 60 C to 50 C.
TCL SunPower is marketing the X5 as a compact unit built for sites that are too small to justify a custom engineered battery system, but too demanding for a residential product. The X5 can accommodate on-grid, off-grid and microgrid operation with product specifications recording islanding in less than 20 milliseconds and black-start capability without any grid or PV connection. The system accepts generator input up to 138 kVA.
Integrated safety features and system management features include three layers of monitoring across cabinet, battery pack, while individual cells support fire suppression, gas detection and arc-fault interruption. They system is managed through TCL’s energy management controller and a web or app interface. TCL SunPower described the cabinet as “VPP ready” and noted compliance with GDPR European data protection regulation and ETSI EN303645 cybersecurity requirements.
Steven Zhang, general manager at TCL SunPower Global described the X5 as a “first milestone” in a broader strategy that will see the manufacturer bring a full C&I storage portfolio to Europe.
“Over the next 12 months, we will expand from hybrid storage systems for small and medium businesses to megawatt-scale solutions, allowing our partners to address a much wider range of customer needs. We enter this market with a strong industrial foundation already in place.”
TCL SunPower’s X5 cabinet has already been deployed at some sites in Europe, including at Spain, where installer Electricidad EUFON has used a TCL X5 to convert an existing off-grid solar water-pumping system first installed in 2015 without battery storage into a hybrid system without expanding the site’s solar array.
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