Tricera Energy exhibiting at Intersolar / ees Europe in Munich last month. Image: Cameron Murray / Solar Media.
German battery energy storage system (BESS) project developer Tricera Energy has been able to build its business thanks to ‘second use’ battery modules from the country’s automotive sector, its COO told Energy-Storage.news.
The Dresden-headquartered company has a 120MWh pipeline of projects for delivery by the end of 2023 but had to come up with an alternative to sourcing batteries the traditional way, as COO Lars Fallant explained:
“We don’t order batteries from China because we are too small for them to be interested in working with us, or the price is too high, which is why we use second use batteries from the automotive sector.”
The company repackages battery modules into BESS units starting from 100kWh in size, which it sources from…