SmartHubs project – Connected Energy’s battery storage systems

ARE YOU KEEN TO CONTROL
YOUR ENERGY COSTS?

Connected Energy’s battery storage systems,
which use second-life battery packs, can provide
you with a number of key benefits, including
helping you with your electricity demand and
reducing your energy bills.

As part of SmartHubs, a cutting edge £31m energy innovation project, we are looking
for energy intensive organisations in and around West Sussex who could benefit from
battery energy storage systems, providing grid balancing and energy bill savings.
If your average half hourly usage is greater than 150 kWh, or you have peak loads
you want to manage, and are operational on winter evenings when electricity is
most expensive, we need to hear from you*.

*Taking part in this study will not preclude you from working on the BISEPS programme.

What space would I need
on my site?

Our battery container is 6m long x 2.2m wide, about
the size of two car parking spaces.
We need access on two sides of the container, on the top
side and one of the long sides.

What is SmartHubs?

The SmartHubs project will create and demonstrate
an innovative low-carbon energy system of the future
in West Sussex.

It will introduce new ways of generating and storing lowcarbon heat, electricity and energy for transport and
demonstrate how these can be integrated to balance energy
supply and demand and deliver cost and carbon benefits for
project partners, including businesses and residents.

Who are we?

Connected Energy is a leading innovator in energy storage.

Our technologies, that utilise second-life electric vehicle
batteries, are rapidly changing the way intensive energy
users can access the benefits of low-cost, on-site solutions.
Our E-STOR system is modular and scalable, as well as
straight forward to install and operate for energy intensive
clients to flexibly control and reduce their energy costs
and develop new revenue streams.

What are second-life battery
energy storage systems?

Electric Vehicles (EV’s) are powered by lithium
batteries. These batteries, which use natural resources
like cobalt, nickel and graphite at manufacture, need
replacing roughly every seven years as their mileage
range between charges is reduced.

Connected Energy works with car manufacturers including
Groupe Renault, Nissan and Jaguar Land Rover to turn
these used battery packs into stationary storage systems.
These battery energy storage systems maximise the value
of the already committed natural resources. Our technology
remotely operates and monitors the second-life batteries to
maximum performance. Once they are degraded beyond
all usefulness in this application, they are recycled: after we
have essentially doubled their working lives. When a battery
is degraded, we simply take out that individual battery and
replace it with a fresh second-life battery.

*The potential of a funded/ part-funded battery energy storage system for your site to help manage your energy