Global partnership will further establish Canadian Solar as an industry leader in complex energy storage project solutions and project development, and Habitat Energy as a leading storage and renewable energy optimizer

GUELPH, Ontario and Oxford, UK, May 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Canadian Solar Inc. (“Canadian Solar”) (NASDAQ: CSIQ) today announced it has executed a strategic partnership and investment with Habitat Energy Limited (“Habitat Energy”), a UK-based market leader in power trading and asset optimization services for battery storage assets that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning. The partnership will allow Canadian Solar to offer enhanced technology solutions for developers and owners of battery storage assets to capture additional revenue from trading optimization, while improving grid stability and contributing to the global energy transition to a cleaner, smarter and more efficient power grid.

Habitat Energy provides state-of-the-art optimization services for grid-scale battery storage assets, which includes a trading platform with full route-to-market capabilities for wholesale and balancing markets. Habitat Energy’s proprietary software, PowerIQ, combines algorithmic forecasting and artificial intelligence to maximize asset performance and value. The software is supported by an experienced team of energy traders and has been delivering market leading revenue performance from their UK portfolio.

The partnership will leverage Canadian Solar’s global scale and reach to provide system solutions and assets with optimization and dispatch services for the storage and solar solutions it provides globally. It also builds on the Habitat Energy platform’s current global rollout and on their established presence in the UK and Australia.

Canadian Solar is currently one of the top providers of turnkey energy storage battery systems with vast experience in developing and executing renewable energy projects to offer highly bankable and competitive integrated energy storage solutions. The division is staffed by energy storage and renewable energy veterans who work closely with leading battery technology partners and project developers to provide innovative storage solutions. Canadian Solar also offers its energy storage customers long term operation and maintenance services including battery capacity augmentation, warranty-wrapped energy capacity and performance guarantees as well as safe and reliable system operations.

Dr. Shawn Qu, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Canadian Solar said, “The power grid of tomorrow is not only built by renewable energy and battery storage, but crucially driven by artificial intelligence, big data, machine learning, cloud computing and many more technologies. Habitat Energy is the proven leader in AI-enabled battery optimization and dispatch services. We strongly share Habitat Energy’s belief that making merchant battery storage investable at scale is a vital step towards delivering a low carbon future and the preservation of our habitat for generations to come. Through this partnership, we will continue to de-risk and improve returns for project owners and investors, while contributing to a smarter, stabler, cleaner and more powerful global electric grid for global consumers.”

Andrew Luers, Co-Founder and CEO of Habitat Energy commented, “We are very happy to announce this partnership with Canadian Solar. Storage-enabled renewables are critical to the energy transition and require continued innovation and collaboration across the entire value chain to achieve their full potential. We share Canadian Solar’s mission to work toward a cleaner earth for future generations and look forward to working together on storage and solar plus storage projects around the world.”

About Habitat Energy

Habitat Energy was founded in 2017 to operate and manage battery storage assets, and is also now offering renewable energy offtake and management, whether co-located with storage or stand alone. Habitat has independently developed a market leading trading platform based on algorithmic and machine learning techniques that can handle the intensive forecasting and computational demands of battery storage and market optimization. Their system also incorporates deep insight into the physical capabilities and degradation of battery storage, offering a profit maximizing rather than revenue maximizing approach. Habitat was recently awarded the optimization contract for the world’s largest solar powered vanadium flow battery in Australia, and currently operates over 200 MWh of storage assets in the UK. They have recently been ranked as the highest performing asset optimizer in terms of revenue per MW by independent third parties. For additional information about Habitat Energy follow them on LinkedIn or visit www.habitat.energy.com.