Intensium Home 10 M is a 10 kWh/ 10 kW battery designed specifically for high-end residential and small commercial solar photovoltaic (PV) installations.
Saft is at Intersolar Europe to launch its Intensium Home 10 M lithium-ion (Li-ion) energy storage system that offers high performance intended for high-end residential and small commercial solar PV installations. The new system has been developed to complement Saft’s established range of Li-ion energy storage systems. In a partnership with KACO new energy, Saft is offering the Intensium Home 10 M developed alongside KACO’s new three-phase inverter.
The Intensium Home 10 M 240 V system comprises five Li-ion modules to provide both high power capability, rated at 10 kW, with 10 kWh energy storage for home and commercial installations. This system is ideally suited to work in partnership with KACO new energy’s blueplanet gridsave 14.0 TL3 inverter in installations up to 30 kW. This combination will help domestic and small company users boost self-consumption of their own clean energy. Producers and consumers will be able to follow their system’s performance on their smartphone.
“Together [Saft and KACO new energy] form a strong partnership that provides customers with a total package solution validated by testing in real homes. This approach smoothes the way to delivering an effective, fast-track energy storage and management solution,” said Volker Dietrich, Director of Energy Systems Technology Division, KACO new energy. “The partnership will enable Saft and KACO new energy to undertake common promotion and training, transfer of expertise and co-use of existing sales channels.”
The combination of Saft and KACO new energy’s products offers advanced energy management with the capability to operate as part of swarm-type schemes. These swarms offer the possibility of aggregating several decentralized energy storage installations to improve grid stability by helping balance supply and demand, as well as offering financially attractive ancillary services to grid operators such as frequency control. The smart energy management system enables remote control of the storage device via Internet or other communication interfaces, for example to switch from self-consumption to frequency regulation.
Swarm applications together with self-consumption, are set to play a key role in Germany’s energy transition – the “Energiewende.” Self-consumption, rather than feeding excess solar energy into the grid, is particularly attractive to the growing number of producers and consumers who are keen to take an active role in managing their energy production and usage.
In Germany in particular, the outlook for self-consumption is bright. In 2020, 29 percent of residential electricity demand and 18 percent of commercial electricity demand could be met by self-produced photovoltaic power (according to GTAI Germany Trade & Invest).
Visitors to the Saft booth at Intersolar Europe are invited to ask Saft’s experts about their growing portfolio of ‘”behind the meter” energy storage solutions ranging from the individual dwelling level with Intensium Home 4 M (4 kWh/ 7 kW) to tertiary and agricultural buildings with Intensium Smart (50 kWh/ 100 kW). They will also see megawatt solutions for diesel hybrid and large PV plants based on the containerized Intensium Max systems.
To read more about the Intensium Home 10 M system, visit Saft’s web site.
