UniEnergy Technologies

UniEnergy Technologies
LLP
Industry Energy
Founded 2012 4 years ago
Headquarters Mukilteo, Washington
Key people
Gary Yang
President and CEO
Products Vandium 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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