The company is soon to flood the market with batteries that store solar energy

Jun 6, 2012 13:29 GMT  ·  By

Up until quite recently, one of the main problems with solar energy was that the lack of an efficient way to store it, which meant that both during night-time and during cloudy days this source was highly unreliable. However, Panasonic is about to launch a new type of battery system that can take care of this drawback.

Panasonic's long-life lithium-ion battery systems are said to have been developed especially for European homes. Moreover, Germany is expected to be the main buyer, seeing how it presently is the continent's leader in terms of solar energy production.

Previous green-oriented interactions between Panasonic and Germany took place last year, when the major corporation worked together with a local German energy storage company to produce the E3/DC power management and storage system.

The decision to start mass-producing storage systems for solar energy seems all the more inspired as costs for purchasing and installing solar systems for homes and businesses are quite low these days, which means that more and more people are looking into the possibility of going green by turning towards the sun.

Naturally, once you buy solar panels and put them to work, you will also start being interested in ways to store the extra energy you make on particularly sunny days, so Panasonic is likely to have its fair share of customers for this new technology it developed.

According to cleantechnica.com, reports indicate that the batteries are designed to resist up to 5000 loading cycles, their capacity being 1.35 kWh.

Apparently, before deciding to tackle the European market, Panasonic made some experiments with the Japanese one.

Thus, towards the beginning of 2012, the leading Japanese battery maker Sanyo, owned by the afore-mentioned corporation as of 2009, presented the general public with the “Smart Energy Storage” (SES) system.

Studies show that the said SES system is more than efficient when it comes to controlling the charge and discharge of electricity generated by means of photovoltaic modules.

All in all, we believe that it is a good thing that so many efforts into making solar energy more user-friendly and that similar storing option will soon appear on international markets.