"The founders and core team members are all from BYD's energy storage business segment (EPRI). "This article is the original of IPO.
Written by stone jin
According to the IPO, Shenzhen Weilan New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as VILION) recently completed tens of millions of yuan in Pre-A round of financing, which was exclusively invested by Zhongwei Capital. This round of financing will be mainly used for product research and development and market expansion.
Founded in 2019, Vilion Weilan is a high-tech enterprise focusing on industrial and commercial battery energy storage products and solutions, and its founder Song Feng and core team members are from BYD's energy storage business segment (EPRI). As early as 2008, the founding team began the application research and development of battery energy storage systems in EPRI, and has led or participated in major projects of over 2GWh. As of 2020, the founding team has accumulated more than 2,000 experience in the design, manufacture and delivery of energy storage systems, and has zero accidents in global applications. The actual implementation of global products and projects has greatly tempered the team, and also forged the core competitiveness of Vilion's "knowhow" in the field of battery energy storage systems.
Since its official operation, Vilion has unswervingly selected the track of industrial and commercial user-side energy storage, which is earlier than most of its current peers. At this stage, the energy storage products designed for industrial and commercial users can meet the application scenarios of smart microgrid systems including off-grid functions, industrial and commercial application solutions combining light and storage (such as system expansion, peak shaving, emergency power backup, etc.), and green flexible charging systems combining light, storage and charging.
Among them, the new modular splicing design adopted by the EnerCube containerized energy storage system shortens the delivery cycle of the traditional container energy storage system from 15 days to 7 days; The EnerCube partitioned O&M function enables individual modules to be maintained or replaced separately when they fail, without causing the whole machine to stop, which greatly improves system availability and safety. At present, a number of Vilion products have obtained authoritative certifications such as CE (IEC62477, IEC62619, IEC61000), G99, EN, AS, VDE, UN, etc., and have been successfully implemented in Europe, Japan, Australia and other places.
Vilion focuses on system integration technology innovation. The self-developed battery cluster active parallel connection technology (AIP) combines the analysis of a large number of scene application data for innovative optimization, and adjusts the terminal voltage of the battery cluster in real time through the battery cluster series AIP control unit, so as to actively control the current of the battery cluster without relying on PCS. The application of this technology not only effectively suppresses the safety hazards caused by multi-cluster parallel circulation, but also increases the capacity availability rate of battery clusters to 100%. Compared with the current string (each battery cluster is equipped with a PCS unit) scheme, the cost of the power part is reduced by about 10%; Compared with the distributed (battery cluster series DCDC scheme, and then merged to connect to the DC side of PCS) scheme, its efficiency is increased by about 3%, and the cost is reduced by about 008~0.1 Yuan W; In addition, AIP technology can also make it easier to expand the capacity of battery clusters without expanding the capacity of the AC side.
Vilion continues to innovate new battery energy storage system integration technologies while adhering to a sustainable development strategy. Since 2020, BYD, Brand (Vilion Angel Investment) and Itochu Corporation have established a solid strategic partnership on the technology of utilizing retired batteries for electric vehicles. Weilan adheres to the concept of sustainability, on the one hand, relying on industry partnerships to maintain cutting-edge, sufficient and reliable battery resources, on the other hand, relying on the mature echelon battery utilization chain, constantly innovating and iterating in system integration technology and battery management, providing users with differentiated, more economical and safer energy storage solutions, meeting the needs of energy storage products in different industrial and commercial application scenarios, and contributing to the sustainable use of resources and ecological environmental protection while enhancing the competitiveness of its own industry.
As an investor in the Pre-A round of financing, Yao Anmin of Zhongwei Capital said: "With the implementation of the 'dual carbon' strategy, Zhongwei Capital will pay attention to the investment opportunities brought about by technological changes in the new energy industry from 2020, and will also cover the related fields of new equipment and new materials. The vilion team's long-term in-depth cultivation of overseas industrial and commercial energy storage, as well as its low-key and down-to-earth work style and quick execution ability, are the reasons why we are optimistic about the vilion team. Mr. Song led the team to achieve rapid growth in 2023, and also hoped that the Vilion team would continue to improve its technological advantages, grasp the development opportunities of overseas industrial and commercial energy storage, overcome obstacles, and continue to move forward. ”