Powering Britain's
Battery Revolution
Powering Britain's
Battery Revolution
The Entrepreneurial Fellowship programme supports researchers across the UK looking to create new businesses and commercialise battery technologies. Fellowships receive mentoring, strategic business advice and introductions to key industry contacts.
Introducing the new Fellowship:
Many electric vehicle (EV) fleet operators have a greater charging demand than their facilities allow. Solutions such as grid upgrades, battery-buffered chargers, and use of public chargers do exist. However they can be very costly and/or slow to deploy. A new company has a solution.
Enough Energy is leveraging modular multilevel converter technology with batteries to develop a battery buffered EV charger capable of both AC and DC charging. The benefits of the technology approach include:
The Enough Energy team charging an EV.
The solution will benefit EV fleet operators by allowing them to access rapid EV charging on site without needing a high-power grid connection. Load management capabilities of the system also have the potential of stabilising grid demand and maximising input from renewable generators. Enough Energy is also exploring off-grid applications for portable EV charging and are working on their first pilot project with a customer for a prototype inverter.
The fellowship will fund the production of a technology demonstrator at full scale and pay the founders wages to allow them to maintain full focus on product development. The outcome of the fellowship will be the demonstration of DC fast charging directly from the demonstrator. Understanding the performance capabilities of the product will be a precursor to external testing and certification, and a pilot programme with potential customers.
Posted on May 22, 2024