The Hitachi Automotive Plant – BESS is a 9,600kW energy storage project located in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki, Japan.
The electro-chemical battery energy storage project uses sodium based as its storage technology. The project was commissioned in 2004.
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Description
The Hitachi Automotive Plant – BESS is owned by Hitachi (100%).
The key applications of the project are electric bill management and electric energy time shift.
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By GlobalDataHitachi and NGK Insulators have delivered the battery energy storage project.
Additional information
The Hitachi Automotive Systems Group’s ESS consists of 4 x 2 MW NGK Insulators Ltd. NaS units. The system performs load leveling and backup power. When installed in 2003, this was one of the largest energy storage systems in the world.
Methodology
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