Like other Chinese BESS suppliers, the firm is building up its local service capabilities and now local manufacturing. HyperStrong hadn’t announced it at the time of our meeting, but later on revealed it had partnered with RCT Power for BESS assembly in Malaysia. This may enable it to avoid US tariffs on Chinese batteries and BESS.
Sodium-ion technology and timeline
The company announced a 60GWh sodium-ion battery co-operation with CATL earlier this year, something many have said marks an inflection point in adoption for the alternative battery chemistry. Lithium-ion, lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries are currently the dominant chemistry for BESS.
Dr Guang said that the company had been waiting for sodium-ion cell manufacturing to scale and become more competitive, and that it also offers different use cases. Its wider operating temperature range allows for deployment in harsher climates and may even enable BESS deployed with no cooling system at all, which would save on auxiliary power and increase round-trip efficiency.
He also gave us an idea of how soon it is launching a sodium-ion BESS product.
