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Rooftop photo voltaic storage and micro inverter firm Yotta Vitality is again at RE+ this 12 months with a brand new model of its rooftop battery that rather more elegantly offers storage and permits installers to make use of it as ballast for the system on the identical time.
After we talked to Yotta Vitality at Intersolar in January, the corporate was showcasing its 1 kilowatt-hour LFP power storage unit that integrates with a floor mount racking resolution, serving each because the power storage for the photo voltaic system in addition to utilizing the load of the battery as ballast for the racking system. The huge unit wasn’t elegant for the 1kWh it offered, nevertheless it labored with a couple 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 part 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 Vitality is displaying off a very new and improved design. It’s roughly a 3rd of the quantity of the unique battery which is a big enchancment, and Yotta was additionally capable of 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 tug a couple of of them up onto the roof. The built-in deal with is ergonomically positioned on the small facet, making it simple to seize and transfer round. That interprets to simpler and sooner set up occasions and a safer run up the ladder with a battery in hand.
To additional optimize the configuration and set up, Yotta Vitality modified its microinverter to assist two battery models per photo voltaic panel, which is good for ballast block replacements. It’s nearly like they constructed the whole lot they discovered from their first few years of operations into this new battery…
The outside of the brand new battery module can also be the identical measurement of a typical cement ballast block used to carry rooftop photo voltaic programs in place. That makes it simple to swap it out 1 for 1, eliminating the necessity for cement ballast blocks that add no precise worth to the rooftop system.
Yotta Vitality labored with main photo voltaic racking provider Unirac to design a brand new customized mount resolution that permits two of Yotta Vitality’s new battery modules to nest within the ft of the mounts themselves. This additional consolidates the footprint of the system and makes for way more elegant and streamlined set up.
Yotta Vitality 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 Vitality battery head over to the web site.
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