Finnish Technology group Wärtsilä said it signed a multi-year supply deal with China’s Eve Energy. Eve will supply lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery cells for Wärtsilä’s GridSolv Quantum energy storage system.
Wärtsilä said the agreement will support its pipeline of energy storage and optimisation orders. It has more than 3.5 GW and over 7 GWh of energy storage capacity awarded, contracted, or in deployment across six continents.
Financial details were not disclosed.
“Our partnership with Eve Energy is one of several strategic measures Wärtsilä is taking to diversify and strengthen our supply chain in response to industry-wide disruptions over the last few years,” said Andrew Tang, Vice President of Energy Storage & Optimisation at Wärtsilä.
GridSolv is one of the first energy storage systems to qualify under the 2023 revision of NFPA 855. GridSolv Quantum was certified to UL 9540 by Eurofins MET Labs in April 2022 and CSA in March 2023. It met UL 9540A unit-level performance requirements in February 2023, the company said.
