Sea Forrest and Taiyo Electric sign MOU for Distributorship of Energy Cube in Japan
Published on 06 Oct 2023Featured Image From Left to Right: Kenichi Takagi (Senior Managing Director, Sanshin Electric Corporation), George Lee (CEO, Sea Forrest), Patrick Lim (COO, BH Global), Daizo Yamada (Senior Managing Director, Taiyo Electric Co. Ltd.)
Gifu City, 05 October 2023
Sea Forrest Power Solutions Pte Ltd (Sea Forrest), a subsidiary company of BH Global, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Taiyo Electric Co. Ltd (Taiyo), Sanshin Electric Corporation, and BOS Marine and Offshore Engineering Corporation, at Taiyo’s new cutting-edge factory in Gifu prefecture, Japan.
Through the strategic partnership, Taiyo (Japan) will be Sea Forrest’s first distributor for their proprietary 20 feet 1.2 MWh “Energy Cube” energy storage system in Japan. Sea Forrest Energy Cubes are containerised energy storage systems for onshore, shipboard, and offshore applications, as back-up power solutions, regenerative power storage, and peak shaver to manage power fluctuations on marine and offshore vessels and platforms.
About the partnership
TAIYO was founded in Japan since 1917 by the Yamada family. It manufactures high quality and environmentally conscious heavy electric equipment and systems for marine and industrial markets. Its lines of products include main switchboards and control panels, ventilation fans, pumps, compressors, shaft generators and systems, electric propulsion systems and marine motors.
SANSHIN is a sister company of Taiyo. It specializes in marine lightings and systems for commercial and leisure marine. It’s lines of products include pumps, horns, sounders, wiring devices, infrared cameras, main switchboards and control panels.
BOSMEC is the engineering arm of Taiyo and Sanshin. It provides engineering solutions and project management for GRE, CCTV, and electric propulsion systems.
SEA FORREST was incorporated in 2011 and specializes in delivering energy management solutions through marine electric propulsion, hybrid and full electric-ready propulsion, marine charging and marine energy storage systems. SEA FORREST also provides their proprietary “SeaGen” modularised marine type-approved performance battery modules and “Energy Cube” marinized energy storage systems in 20ft containers, suitable for marine vessels and offshore platforms.