Maxwell has been awarded a $1.39m contract by the CEC's research and development programme to fund design and integration of a Soitec CPV installation and an energy storage system based on ultracapacitors – high-speed battery-like charging devices.
The pilot will be built at University of California San Diego (UCSD), with a larger, commercial-scale plant – also using Soitec’s CPV technology – wired up in southern California.
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