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A new energy storage development centre is providing an innovative modular and flexible testing environment for electric vehicle technologies
nergy storage systems are playing an increasingly crucial role in ensuring grid stability and reliability as the
uptake of renewable energy sources increases, with REPowerEU foreseeing 72% of power generation coming from renewables by 2030. Energy storage solutions manufacturer Socomec is aiming to support this transition with its new multimillion-euro energy storage development centre near Strasbourg in France. The Energy Storage System (ESS) Grid Lab will not only develop novel technologies for grid security,
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resilience and reliability, but will also provide a fully equipped testing environment for electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure and battery performance. “The platform is dedicated to
energy storage system developments, and is open to our customers for training,” says Flavien Martos, Product Development Manager – Energy Storage Solutions at Socomec. “EV chargers are a booming application, and so we have implemented a dedicated Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure (EVCI) platform on-site with the capacity to work both on and
off-grid. The idea is to welcome major players in the EVCI industry to plug their chargers into our system and test them to gather information, provide analysis and deliver crucial insights such as what level of power is needed, or the level of autonomy needed in order to allocate the charger with a battery energy storage system.”
AN ON-SITE MICROGRID The new 500m2
facility has been built
to test the capabilities of a whole range of energy storage projects for customers that would be otherwise unfeasible to safely achieve on real-
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