Chinese automaker BYD has begun the project deployment of its 543 MWh energy storage system, which is scheduled to start construction in the second half and be operational by the end of the year.
Construction on a 543 MWh Cube Pro liquid-cooled energy storage system in Las Vegas is set to begin in the second quarter of 2023, with commercial operation expected by the end of the year.
In a press release on February 6, the Chinese new energy vehicle (NEV) and battery giant stated that the project will assist Nevada’s largest power provider in meeting its goal of zero carbon emissions by 2050.
BYD’s Cube Pro
Liu Wendi, BYD’s senior director of energy storage business development, claims that the project will benefit residents in the Las Vegas area and those throughout Nevada.
BYD’s Cube Pro is a liquid-cooled energy storage product with an energy density 80 percent higher than its predecessor. It is compliant with global energy storage standards. According to BYD, it is the first product in China to pass the global UL9540A test and is now used in hundreds of large-scale energy storage projects worldwide. Notably, it is BYD’s most recent innovation in the US energy storage market.
World’s biggest single-phase energy storage plant
BYD declared on May 31, 2022, that it had completed its GWh-class solar energy storage plant project in North America.
The Chinese automaker said that the project, which uses BYD’s energy storage product BYD CUBE T28, had completed trial runs and was now operational.
Finally, it announced last November that the world’s biggest single-phase energy storage plant, supplied by its energy storage business, had gone into commercial operation on the US West Coast.
BYD supplied the plant with the BYD Cube T28, a 1500V energy storage product with a capacity of nearly 1.7 GWh. The company’s energy storage business had delivered about 3.6 GWh cumulatively in the US as of October 2022, according to a transcript of an investor relations event in November.
