An innovative new compact battery system featuring patented technology developed in South Africa is hoping to bring electricity to millions of power-less African households and support load-shedding backup needs at the same time.
The recently-launched PowerBrick was created by Peco Power, a company born out of Wits University’s School of Electrical and Information Engineering (EIE).
“Developed and refined over the past seven years by a team of Wits innovators, headed up by Professor Willie Cronje, the off-grid solution is designed to be affordable for low-income households, robust to survive demanding African settings, and can be configured for several applications,” the company explained.
“The mini-grid is scalable from 70W to 500W of continuous power (or 2500W of peak power), and the battery storage is expandable from 150Wh to 2500Wh,” Peco Power said.
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southafrica An innovative new compact battery system featuring patented technology developed in South Africa is hoping to bring electricity to millions of powerless African households and support load-shedding backup needs at the same time.
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