WaveTech’s CCT takes lead battery technology into Indonesian telecoms

WaveTech’s German subsidiary is to test the group’s Crystal Control Technology (CCT) on a combination of lead batteries and solar power providing backup power for telecoms systems in Indonesia.

WaveTech said it will monitor progress by treating lead batteries with CCT — its proprietary tech which it says enhances the performance and lifetime of lead batteries used in ESS.

WaveTech said on July 3 it was partnering with Mitratel Indonesia to optimize an unspecified number of Mitratel’s off-grid telecoms backup energy storage systems.

The project aims to enhance battery performance, extend longevity, reduce costs, and minimize the carbon footprint associated with lead battery usage in telecom backup power.

The collaboration marks WaveTech’s expansion into

Indonesia, a country the company says has over 200,000 telecoms sites.

WaveTech plans to scale up and deploy the technology, under a commercial agreement, across a larger number of sites with the goal of covering the majority of Mitratel’s network.

The field trials will involve critical live sites where hybrid lead battery and solar energy systems are in operation.

The project follows WaveTech’s successful completion, announced in February, of the first commercial installation of CCT in Malaysia with Maxis Telecommunications.

In March, WaveTech said it had signed a deal with rolled aluminium producer Niche Fusina Rolled Products to test CCT on electric forklift trucks.

CCT is based on applying a specifically modulated periodic signal during charge, and monitoring the state of charge and state of health of the battery. The innovation is mostly used in telecoms, where lead batteries globally represent the majority of battery demand.

WaveTech’s R&D department is optimizing the technology for doubling the lifetime and tripling the energy throughput of the batteries for this and other stationary energy storage applications.

CCT helps WaveTech charge the batteries faster and more efficiently. The power pulses sent to the battery enhance the mobility of ions in the electrolyte and optimize crystallization in the positive and negative plates of the battery. The surface of the plates remains active, sulfation is slowed down, and the highly porous microstructure of the lead and lead dioxide crystals formed in the active materials is kept sustainable.