Xos launches scalable BESS for data centers

US commercial EV manufacturer Xos has launched a behind-the-meter energy storage product targeted at the data center segment, where wait times for grid connections and gas turbines are proving a barrier to deployment.

The Xos Power Hub is available in three configurations: the 1.2 MWh Power Hub, 2.5 MWh Power Hub, and 4.0 MWh Power Hub. The 1.2 MWh capacity Power Hub offers 0.6 MW power output and the 2.5MWh capacity Power Hub offers 1.2 MW power output, according to Xos.

Each unit incorporates integrated power conversion, plant controls, and generator dispatch logic and a standard 480 V three-phase output, and the unit is shipped in a standard intermodal container.

Built on the same architecture as Xos’s mobile EV charging platform Xos Hub, the manufacturer claims Xos Power Hub commissioning can be completed within days.

Xos reports it has deployed more than 250 MWh of energy storage in North America to date, across utility, fleet, government and industrial customers. The years’ long wait for grid connections for data centers and other industrial sites in many markets present an opportunity for mobile, modular energy storage, according to the manufacturer.

“The single biggest constraint in US industry right now is the inability to deliver power where it’s needed, when it’s needed,” said Dakota Semler, CEO of Xos. “We engineered this product to do three things that conventional energy storage systems cannot: arrive on a standard truck, energize without a microgrid controller, and make every kilowatt-hour of fuel-fired generation cleaner and more efficient. This is not a battery. It is a deployable power plant.”