flow battery News
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Materials availability and supply chain considerations for vanadium in grid-scale redox flow batteries
A new publication by Volta technical analyst Kara Rodby explores the precarious supply chain that has led to historically high and volatile #vanadium prices and its implications on VRFB deployment at scale in 2030 and beyond. ...
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SDG&E Spurs Energy Storage Innovation With Flow Battery Technology
SDG&E recently unveiled a new vanadium redox flow (VRF) battery storage pilot project in coordination with Sumitomo Electric (SEI), which stemmed from a partnership between Japan's New Energy and Industrial Development Organization (NEDO) and the California Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz). During the four-year demonstration project, SDG&E will be ...
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Ameresco Completes First Phase of Department of Defense-Funded Flow Battery Investigation
Ameresco, Inc., a leading energy efficiency and renewable energy company, recently announced the completion of phase-one of a multi-stage investigation of how flow battery technology could support microgrids with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Conducted in partnership with 2ndPath Energy, this research is funded by the Department of Defense's Environmental Security Technology Certification ...
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VoltStorage extends Redox Flow research team
Munich, 27th March 2020 – After successful market entry of the world’s first low cost residential battery storage on the basis of the ecological Vanadium Redox Flow technology, VoltStorage focuses on the future. This is why the VoltStorage research department was extended already in summer 2019 to push ahead innovations. VoltStorage is expanding today again with two new and ...
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Ameresco Begins Second Phase of Department of Defense Funded Flow Battery Investigation
Ameresco, Inc., a leading cleantech integrator specializing in energy efficiency and renewable energy, this week announced that it has begun phase-two of a multi-stage investigation into how flow battery technology could support microgrids with the Department of Defense (DoD). Phase-one of the investigation was completed in April 2020 and primarily focused on evaluating the technical and economic ...
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Flow Battery Pilot Showcases Economics of Storage in Wholesale Markets
The California Independent System Operator (ISO) has become one of the nation's first wholesale power markets to connect a groundbreaking type of flow technology batteries to its grid, which could give rise to promising storage capability on large-scale electric systems.San Diego Gas & Electric (SDGE) has unveiled a vanadium redox battery storage pilot project in coordination with Sumitomo ...
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DOE Announces $24.5 Million for Manufacturing Innovation to Build a Clean, Resilient Electric Grid
The U.S. Department of Energy this week announced up to $24.5 million to support improvements in domestic manufacturing to build resilient, modern electricity infrastructure and address the climate emergency. The two funding opportunities will back research and development for the materials and technologies needed to expand the grid with new, clean-energy sources, deliver affordable electricity ...
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Department of Energy Announces $120 Million for Battery Innovation Hub
Today (9/18), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced plans to provide $120 million over five years to renew the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), a DOE Energy Innovation Hub devoted to advancing battery science and technology, led by Argonne National Laboratory. "Improvements in battery performance are paramount to the future of both transportation and the electric grid," ...
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Groundbreaking Flow Battery Project Helping to Advance Clean Energy Microgrids
Two years after becoming the first battery of its kind to be connected to the California grid to help support reliability and maximize the use of clean energy, the vanadium redox flow (VRF) battery based at a San Diego Gas & Electric substation is again breaking new ground. This time, the emerging battery technology is being tested as a means to help achieve zero-emission microgrids - a tool ...
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SCHMID Supplies Energy Storage for Smart Grid
In the Smart Grid Technology Lab, researchers of the TU Dortmund are developing and testing components for smart grids. To this end, they have created an infrastructure which is to be expected in a future low-voltage grid. In addition to electric vehicles, PV systems and a controllable local power transformer, these are also efficient energy storages. Soon a Vanadium Redox Flow Battery from ...
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Vanadium Flow Battery Technology Available for Licensing from PNNL
Technology designed to bolster resilience of the electric grid and provide a way to store large amounts of energy from renewable sources is available, thanks to researchers from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The research involves vanadium redox flow batteries—large batteries designed to store massive amounts of energy for long periods. These batteries hold the ...
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Redox Flow Development at VoltStorage
Since 2018, VoltStorage offers the world’s first cost efficient residential storage system based on the ecological Redox Flow technology. Thanks to patent pending production automation and technological developments, VoltStorage succeeded in making a storage technology available to the mass market, that was successfully deployed in large storage systems, for the first time. To ...
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Pu Neng Wins Contract for the Largest Vanadium Flow Battery in China
Pu Neng, a leading provider of vanadium flow battery technology, has been awarded a contract for a 3-megawatt (MW) 12-megawatt-hour (MWh) VRB as Phase 1 of the Hubei Zaoyang 10MW 40MWh Storage Integration Demonstration Project. This first phase will be installed in Zaoyang, Hubei to integrate a large solar photovoltaic system into the grid. Following this 10MW 40MWh project, there will be a ...
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Future of energy storage
Original story at MIT News MIT professor Fikile Brushett is in the process of taking the power generated by wind and solar, chemically lashing it to molecules derived from flora and fauna, and storing it in liquids until it’s needed to electrify our homes. The fact that such a system — if it's feasible — is likely years from reality doesn’t deter Brushett, the Raymond A. ...
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Honeywell Introduces New Energy Storage Flow Battery Technology
Honeywell this week announced a new flow battery technology that works with renewable generation sources such as wind and solar to meet the demand for sustainable energy storage. The new flow battery uses a safe, non-flammable electrolyte that converts chemical energy to electricity to store energy for later use while meeting the environmental, longevity and safety objectives of utilities. ...
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World`s Largest Solar-Powered Vanadium Flow Battery Coming to South Australia
Yadlamalka, South Australia will take center stage in the race to decarbonize the global electricity system when the world's largest solar-powered vanadium flow battery (VFB) comes online there next year. In this pioneering project, a VFB supplied by Invinity Energy Systems will charge from a solar PV array and provide power to the local grid on demand. Yadlamalka Energy Trust has developed ...
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U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy to Award - Marine Corps Air Station Miramar for Energy Conservation, Tour state-of-the-art green facilities
On Wednesday, May 20th U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy will join Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Miramar officials to present the 2015 EPA Federal Green Challenge award for Energy. The base is being recognized for having the greatest percentage reduction in energy use nationally, cutting its fuel oil consumption by 98% in 2014 by building a new aircraft hangar which brought a natural gas ...
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Compound Could Transform Energy Storage for Large Grids
In order to power entire communities with clean energy, such as solar and wind power, a reliable backup storage system is needed to provide energy when the sun isn’t shining and the wind doesn’t blow. One possibility is to use any excess solar- and wind-based energy to charge solutions of chemicals that can subsequently be stored for use when sunshine and wind are scarce. At that ...
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De Nora announces cooperation with Primus Power
De Nora, a global leading supplier of electrochemical technologies, is pleased to announce cooperation with Primus Power, Silicon Valley-based provider of low-cost, long-duration, fade-free energy storage solutions. The companies have been collaborating for more than five years, modifying, testing, and verifying De Nora’s proprietary DSA® electrode formula to bring critical improvements ...
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Alfa Chemistry Offers Abundant Choices of Alternative Energy Materials for Energy Storage & Batteries
To harness greenhouse gas emissions and alter global warming, Alfa Chemistry recently announced diverse choices of alternative energy materials. Among them, solar cell materials, LiFePO4 battery materials, ternary lithium-ion battery materials, and energy storage materials are specially designed for use in developing energy storage systems and batteries. Due to the pollution-free and renewable ...
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