Akihabara News (Tokyo) – Shenzhen-based Huawei is expected to start selling large-scale battery systems that store renewable energy to Japanese customers from March 2022.
The move comes just a year after Tesla launched sales of similar technology in Japan, adding competition to a rapidly growing market.
Huawei is already known for its smaller battery systems which it sources from Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), a Chinese manufacturer.
The new large-scale systems will include many CATL batteries packed together in containers large enough to store 2,000 kilowatt hours of energy.
With such a powerful capacity, these energy storage systems could help Japan meet some of its energy storage needs.
Fuji Keizai, a research firm, estimates that the Japanese renewable energy battery storage market will grow from 16.7 billion yen ($146 million) in 2020 to 45.8 billion yen ($400 million) in 2030.
The Japanese government aims for 36% to 38% of all energy to be generated by renewables by the end of this decade.
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