Fremont, CA: NEXTracker, a Flex company, announced February 5 that Leclanché, a global integrator of energy storage, had selected NEXTracker to supply its NX Drive energy storage system (ESS) for battery systems the company is installing at commercial and industrial businesses in Ontario.
NX Drive is a standardized battery enclosure system for generation-plus-storage and stand-alone storage applications. In this installation, NX Drive ESS will be utilized as a stand-alone system, incorporating a storage inverter and entire ESS within the enclosure to help power several small businesses in metropolitan Toronto. Each ESS unit has a capacity of approximately two MWh.
NX Drive provides a flexible, pre-engineered balance-of-system (BOS) solution for virtually any generation-plus-storage or stand-alone storage application. NX Drive consists of a standard ISO form-factor enclosure with pre-engineered and integrated electrical, mechanical and thermal management safety features. Customers can also upgrade battery modules as technology evolves, and integrate photovoltaic and/or storage inverters, depending on design preference. Using advanced, patent-pending technologies to ensure safe operation and optimized performance, the NX Drive system infrastructure supports standard customer-supplied or NEXTracker-sourced Tier 1 lithium-ion batteries.
With an installation of this nature, the host companies will be in a good position to generate their own power for backup, peak shaving, arbitrage or other purposes.