Blue Planet Energy has launched a new energy storage system, the Blue Ion HI. The stackable, maintenance-free lithium system is backed by a 15-year performance warranty to ensure reliable power delivery, day or night, on or off grid.
“The Blue Ion HI is an extremely reliable, no maintenance, long-term investment, and my customers love its high-quality, sleek design aesthetics,” said Jeff Richardson, president of CPM Design & Construction, a solar + storage and home construction expert in Hawaii. “It also takes about half the time to install the Blue Ion HI compared to other systems, and its ability to be easily stacked maximizes energy density while minimizing installation footprint.”
From a removable door to no-drill conduit knockouts, Blue Ion HI is purposefully engineered for streamlined installation. Its proprietary racking system allows installers to easily place and stack the lithium ferrous phosphate (LFP) battery modules and to quickly expand capacity in units of 8, 12 or 16 kWh as customers’ energy needs evolve over time, without system overhauling or additional accessories. The battery cells and modules within the Blue Planet Energy products are certified to the highest safety standards in accordance with UL 9540A Test Method.
Blue Ion HI works with any standard inverter and is equipped with Blue Planet Energy’s intuitive Nāmaka communications platform, which integrates with on-site existing energy systems — including renewable energy installations, on-site generators and the local electrical grid — to visualize performance data and inform actionable insights around energy usage patterns.
“Whether it’s providing critical backup power during grid outages or intelligently powering everyday life, Blue Ion HI paves a path to self-reliance and sustainability for individuals and organizations around the world,” said Michael Menendez, head of product development and technology for Blue Planet Energy. “Every aspect of this product is thoughtfully designed for safety, simplicity and reliability to deliver the full environmental and economic benefits of energy storage to the masses. With support from our certified dealer network, we’re demystifying energy storage and helping customers to live the future of energy independence today.”
I’m very interested in learning more of this product, cost, availability etc. as a Realtor I get asked a lot about solar.
This is where one needs to be careful. Older homes may well need a house circuit breaker panel upgrade and like a lot of home improvements now-a-days can go from mild to wild.
Consider a house has a kitchen upgrade, one can spend $20k or go all out with a gut and replace that may end up costing $60k, perhaps more. The same with solar PV, the first question is what is your goal? Just a rough, non-specific per site idea, is from about $1,400/kWh up around $1,600/kWh of installed ESS. The interesting point although some systems have larger energy storage capacity and cost quite a bit more total, the dollar per kWh of installed energy storage is still in the $1,400/kWh whether it’s a 10kWh ESS or a 30kWh ESS. Then there’s the unknowns of local codes and permitting fees. I’ve seen reasonable fees for permitting and I’ve seen ‘dog-and-pony’ shows with fees well into one or two thousand dollars.
Do a search on an October, 19 2020 article posted on the now defunct Greentechmedia site. It is by a guy named Barry Cinnamon who has been doing solar PV for at least two decades now. He chronicled the cost to upgrade energy efficiency and install solar PV in his 50 year old house, with costs, energy savings and ROI for the project. It’s an interesting read.
The Blue Planet Energy, as well as others like Simpliphi and new entities like ELM fieldsight that claim (Micro-grid) status with their product are beginning to blur the line between commercial and residential ESS with more and more options built in for storage capacity, and overall energy output, that could make a standard home energy agnostic and create quite a problem with the rote electric utility in the near future.
Great battery systems! We consider them the Rolls Royce of batteries. My company is BlueSky Energy US, Inc (AKA GreenRock). We took over the saltwater battery after Aquion shut down. Now we also have a new LTO outdoor system.