A few days ago, Fluence, a global battery energy storage system integrator, said that the company is building a new battery energy storage system production plant in Utah, the United States, to serve the US energy storage market.
From a planning point of view, the plant will start delivering Fluence Cube in September 2022. Cube is an integral part of Fluence's Gridstack, Sunstack and Edgestack energy storage products, using LFP-280LC lithium iron phosphate battery modules from supplier CATL.
It is understood that the production capacity of the plant will start at 75 Cubes per week and is planned to increase to 150 Cubes per week. Fluence said the move would expand its capacity outside Asia to better serve the U.S. market and ease current supply chain constraints.
Project delivery times in the U.S. energy storage industry have increased significantly over the past 18 months, including delays in large-scale unloadings at U.S. ports. Fluence's move is to solve the urgent need through localized production and assembly.
According to public information, Fluence Energy was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Virginia, USA. It is a provider of energy storage products and services composed of Siemens and AES. The company is driving the global clean energy transition with market-leading energy storage products and services and digital applications of renewable energy and storage.
Fluence Energy believes that energy storage is at the heart of this transition, and as more and more renewable energy sources join the grid and the transportation industry moves towards electrification, battery energy storage technology becomes even more important. The company's products help major utilities, developers, and commercial and industrial customers around the world deliver more sustainable, reliable and resilient grid services in a repeatable, scalable manner.
As of the end of July this year, according to the statistics of a foreign research institution, the battery energy storage projects that Fluence has deployed or contracted around the world is close to 5GW.
