What is Industrial and commercial energy storage C&I ESS?

What is Industrial and commercial energy storage C&I ESS?

Industrial and commercial energy storage has become more and more popular. We will take a look at both concept and categorization aspects of commercial and industrial energy storage.

First, C&I concept: 

Commercial and industrial energy storage is an important component of the energy storage market and uses electrochemical energy storage technologies such as lithium batteries. Energy storage according to the end customer, can be divided into the power side, grid side, and user-side energy storage, where the power side, grid-side energy storage is also known as pre-meter energy storage or large storage, user-side energy storage is also known as behind-the-meter energy storage. User-side energy storage is divided into industrial and commercial energy storage and home energy storage, the difference between the two lies in the customer group.

Industrial and commercial users configure the main reason for energy storage to meet their own internal demand for electricity, the use of peak and valley electricity price difference arbitrage to reduce operating costs, energy storage can also be used as a backup power supply to cope with sudden power outages; if the configuration of photovoltaic, but also to maximize the photovoltaic power generation from self-consumption, and effectively enhance the rate of consumption of clean energy! As we have developed the small size 215KWh Smart ESS

Second, C& I ESS classification:

Industrial and commercial energy storage can be categorized into PV-supported industrial and commercial energy storage and non-PV-supported industrial and commercial energy storage. According to whether or not it is installed with industrial and commercial PV, industrial and commercial energy storage can be divided into PV-supporting industrial and commercial energy storage and non-PV-supporting industrial and commercial energy storage.

(1) Photovoltaic supporting industrial and commercial energy storage: For commercial and large industrial users, power self-consumption can be realized through the installation of PV + energy storage, suppressing the PV power curve, and improving the utilization rate of clean energy. At the same time, energy storage can also be utilized to carry out separate peak and valley arbitrage;

(2) non-PV supporting industrial and commercial energy storage: for commercial buildings, schools, hospitals, and other scenarios that are not suitable for the installation of large-scale distributed photovoltaic, independently installing the energy storage system can be used to load shaving peaks and filling in valleys, peak, and valley arbitrage.