The Commercial Opportunity
Scalable Energy Storage for Real World Sites
Battery storage can offer significant value to commercial and industrial businesses, but deploying it close to buildings and day-to-day operations can be challenging. Lithium-ion fire risk can restrict where systems are installed and what is required around them.
Separation distances, fire protection, emergency access, regulatory approvals and insurance can consume valuable space and add cost and complexity.
ArcActive is developing its commercial storage system around these practical constraints. By combining inherently safe lead-acid technology with a containerised system and repeatable approach to deployment, we help more sites move from a compelling business case to an operating battery system.
The Technology
Lead-Acid Batteries for Daily Cycling
ArcActive combines its proprietary fabric electrode technology with a bipolar battery architecture to create a new generation of lead-acid batteries. Together, these innovations address the limitations that have traditionally restricted lead-acid batteries in high-cycle applications, while retaining the fundamental advantages of one of the world's most well-established battery chemistries.
The result is an inherently safe, highly recyclable and long-life energy storage solution, supported by a mature global manufacturing and recycling infrastructure. By leveraging established lead-acid materials and processes, ArcActive provides a practical pathway to cost-effective energy storage at scale.
Beyond the Battery
A Complete System Designed for Commercial Sites
ArcActive has developed a fully integrated energy storage system. Battery management, power conversion, controls, thermal management and safety systems are all integrated into a single containerised energy storage solution.
The ArcActive system is a defined, site-ready product, which minimises the engineering and integration required at a new deployment site. By integrating the core equipment within the container, ArcActive provides a simpler, more repeatable path from initial design through to installation and operation.
From One Site to Many
Making Deployment More Repeatable
Fire-risk requirements can make battery installations highly dependent on the characteristics of each site. Separation distances, fire-protection measures, emergency access and other safeguards vary with proximity to buildings and other assets.
Meeting these requirements demands additional space, infrastructure and site-specific engineering, adding cost and extending design, approval and installation timelines. This complexity can make projects more expensive, slower to deploy and harder to replicate across multiple sites.
ArcActive has developed defined system configurations and installation requirements that provide a consistent basis for deploying storage across multiple sites. Reusing engineering, planning and assessment work from one installation to the next can reduce project costs, shorten deployment timelines and make portfolio-scale deployment more practical.
Operating Milestone
Deakin University Pilot
ArcActive's first pilot-scale containerised battery energy-storage system is now operating at Deakin University's Waurn Ponds microgrid in Victoria, Australia, through our collaboration with Origin Zero.
The installation takes ArcActive's technology beyond battery and system development and into a real-world microgrid environment. It provides an opportunity to operate the complete system under practical conditions and build the experience needed to support the development of future commercial and industrial installations.
Deakin University's Waurn Ponds microgrid provides a valuable environment for demonstrating and evaluating new energy technologies as part of an operating energy system.
Working with Origin Zero and Deakin allows ArcActive to gain practical experience of installation, commissioning and operation outside our own development facilities, while generating information that can feed directly back into the design of future systems.
