Yotta Energy’s New 1kWh Rooftop Battery Pulls Double Duty As Ballast

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Rooftop photo voltaic storage and micro inverter firm Yotta Power is again at RE+ this 12 months with a brand new model of its rooftop battery that rather more elegantly gives storage and permits installers to make use of it as ballast for the system on the similar time.

When we talked to Yotta Energy at Intersolar in Januarythe corporate was showcasing its 1 kilowatt-hour LFP vitality storage unit that integrates with a floor mount racking resolution, serving each because the vitality storage for the photo voltaic system in addition to utilizing the load of the battery as ballast for the racking system. The large unit wasn’t elegant for the 1kWh it offered, but it surely labored with a number of slight modifications to the racking system.

The unique unit weighed in at 55 kilos and used each the improved thermal traits of LFP cells in addition to a proprietary section change materials that turns from a stable to a liquid to assist dissipate warmth when mixed with a set of exterior cooling fins.

This 12 months, Yotta Power is displaying off a very new and improved design. It’s roughly a 3rd of the amount of the unique battery which is a big enchancment, and Yotta was additionally in a position to shrink the dimensions of the cooling fins considerably due to the entire learnings from the unique product.

The brand new battery is barely 32 kilos, which makes it far simpler for installers to drag a number of of them up onto the roof. The built-in deal with is ergonomically positioned on the small facet, making it straightforward to seize and transfer round. That interprets to simpler and quicker set up occasions and a safer run up the ladder with a battery in hand.

To additional optimize the configuration and set up, Yotta Power modified its microinverter to assist two battery models per photo voltaic panel, which is right for ballast block replacements. It’s virtually like they constructed all the pieces they discovered from their first few years of operations into this new battery…

The outside of the brand new battery module can be the identical measurement of a typical cement ballast block used to carry rooftop photo voltaic programs in place. That makes it straightforward to swap it out 1 for 1, eliminating the necessity for cement ballast blocks that add no precise worth to the rooftop system.

Yotta Power labored with main photo voltaic racking provider Unirac to design a brand new customized mount resolution that permits two of Yotta Power’s new battery modules to nest within the toes of the mounts themselves. This additional consolidates the footprint of the system and makes for far more elegant and streamlined set up.

Yotta Power displaying off this new battery at RE+ in Anaheim is simply the smooth launch, with the official launch deliberate for Intersolar in January 2025. Constructing on the official launch, the brand new battery will launch in Q1 or Q2 of 2025. For extra details about the brand new Yotta Power battery head over to the website.