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| ETI Tech claims world’s first in battery technology |
| Business & Market 2009 | |||
| Written by Financial Daily | |||
| Wednesday, 30 September 2009 12:23 | |||
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“ETI Tech is proud to be the first in the world to start the commercialisation of Solar Home, powered exclusively by ETI Tech’s lithium polymer-based battery system that can fully charge in one day and store the required daily capacity needed by one family,” it said in a statement yesterday. ETI Tech is a home-grown green technology company pioneering the use of environmental-friendly energy storage products in Malaysia. It said a typical ETI Tech Solar Home system comprise a solar panel, CCCV (constant current, constant voltage) controller, inverter and lithium battery. “Under similar testing conditions, ETI Tech’s lithium polymer-based battery system only requires the full effective solar radiation per day to charge the battery at its optimum load capacity,” it said. In comparison, ETI Tech said lead acid-based batteries, which are widely recognised to be harmful to the environment and proven to be of great health hazard to humans, typically required three times longer to generate the same amount of energy capacity for one-day load requirement. It said global efforts to reverse the adverse impact of global warming involved not only maximising the generation of power from renewable energy sources but also the utilisation of environmental-friendly and efficient methods of storing the power generated from these energy sources. ETI Tech said the superior performance of Solar Home was due to its intelligent battery management system that provided an optimum charging and discharging characteristics under any given conditions, and the battery optimised energy absorption from the solar photovoltaic (PV) panels. “The net result is tremendous cost savings as ETI Tech’s lithium polymer-based battery system dramatically reduces the number of solar PV panels and amount of battery storage to generate the same absorption capacity and store the energy at the same rate when compared to lead acid-based batteries,” it said. ETI Tech said it was targeting initiatives involving community level electrification development to boost “green” rural electricity generation. “With many sparsely-populated rural areas in the country, especially in East Malaysia, we firmly believe our environmental-friendly lithium polymer-based battery system will contribute positively to the promotion of renewable energy that will ultimately bring benefits to both the environment and communal economy,” it said. This article appeared in The Edge Financial Daily, September 30, 2009.
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