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Battery cell facility built to meet growing

demand for battery storage

olarEdge Technologies and its support the growing needs for storage solutions offered by the company.
subsidiary, Kokam, a provider of Zvi Lando, the company’s CEO, commented: “The opening of Sella 2 is an important
Slithium-ion batteries and integrated milestone for SolarEdge. It allows us to own key processes in the development and
energy storage solutions, recently opened manufacturing of advanced energy storage solutions for our solar core business and
a 2 GWh battery cell manufacturing facility additional applications, while further securing the resilience of our supply chain. We are
in South Korea. The new facility, dubbed committed to growing our business in the energy storage market, as well as our investment
“Sella 2”, is currently producing test cells in battery cell technology and cell manufacturing, further strengthening our storage product
for certification, with ramp-up expected portfolio.”
during the second half of 2022.
Once fully operational, Sella 2 will About SolarEdge
enable SolarEdge to have its own supply of SolarEdge is a global leader in smart energy technology. By leveraging world-class
lithium-ion batteries and the infrastructure engineering capabilities and with a relentless focus on innovation, SolarEdge creates smart
to develop new battery cell chemistries energy solutions that power our lives and drive future progress. SolarEdge developed an
and technologies. The facility is planned to intelligent inverter solution that changed the way power is harvested and managed in
manufacture battery cells for SolarEdge’s photovoltaic (PV) systems. The SolarEdge DC optimised inverter seeks to maximise power
residential solar-attached batteries as well generation while lowering the cost of energy produced by the PV system. Continuing to
as battery cells for a variety of industries, advance smart energy, SolarEdge addresses a broad range of energy market segments
including mobile applications, energy through its PV, storage, EV charging, batteries, UPS, electric vehicle powertrains and grid
stationary storage solutions (ESS) and services solutions.
UPS applications. The facility can scale
its battery cell capacity in the future to Contact Lily Salkin, SolarEdge, lily.salkin@solaredge.com, https://www.solaredge.com

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