Xinjiang, China – Sineng Electric has successfully provided a customized energy storage solution for the 75MW/300MWh Vanadium Redox Flow Battery (VRFB) project in Xinjiang, China, which has been operating reliably since its commissioning.The project exemplifies the effective integration of energy storage systems, aimed at enhancing grid stability and accelerating the deployment of renewable energy in […]
Australian Vanadium Signs Flow Battery Project Development MOU – EQ Mag Pro
Australian Vanadium, a startup looking to establish a vertically integrated vanadium flow battery business, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with developer North Harbour Clean Energy (NHCE). NHCE is focused on developing long-duration energy storage capacity at pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) and vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) sites, having identified strong fundamental market […]
Vanadium Flow Batteries For a Zero-Emissions Energy System
Growth in renewables and corresponding market pricing is the key driver for the commercialisation and global adoption for vanadium flow batteries (VFBs) and an important reason why we will see further growth for this technology over the years to come, says Ed Porter of Invinity Energy Systems. This article first appeared in Volume 26 of […]
Largo Says Vanadium For Energy Storage Worth Twice as Much as For Steel Production at ‘Battery Day’
Using vanadium for battery electrolytes could be twice as profitable as supplying it for steel production, which is currently the major industrial use for the abundant metal, vanadium producer Largo Resources has said. Largo Resources has decided that the market for long-duration energy storage will be a high value opportunity and held a ‘Battery Day’ […]
Abengoa to Build Microgrid with Vanadium Flow Batteries at South African Mine
Bushveld Energy, a vanadium energy storage solutions provider, has selected Abengoa to construct Africa’s first megawatt scale hybrid microgrid with flow batteries for the Vametco mine in South Africa. Abengoa, a Spanish multinational company in the infrastructure, energy and water sectors, will engineer, supply and construct a 3.5 MW solar PV plant and a 1 […]
Realising the transition to green energy, through renewables and the vanadium redox flow battery
Paul Vollant is Director of Sales & Trading at Largo Resources, a producer and supplier of vanadium. As the world intensifies its efforts to adapt to the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the pressing need to accelerate the transition to renewable energy cannot be ignored. Though life as we know it has been greatly […]
Solar-charged vanadium flow machine pre-qualifies for UK’s frequency response market
‘Flow batteries’ could provide frequency response in the UK for the first time ever, as a modestly sized solar-plus-storage system has been pre-qualified into National Grid’s dynamic firm frequency response (dFFR) market. Last week energy storage technology provider and system integrator RedT – which prefers the description ‘flow machines’ for its vanadium redox flow, long […]
Vanadium: The next big thing in energy storage
CellCube Energy Storage Systems Inc. (CSE: CUBE, OTCQB: CECBF, FSE: 01X) intends to be a fully integrated producer of vanadium, vanadium electrolytes and vanadium redox flow batteries for energy-centric markets. Hannah Bernard: Hi, I’m Hannah Bernard. You’re watching Market One Minute, and today, we have Stefan Schauss, CEO and director of CellCube Energy Storage Systems. Tell […]
‘World first’ grid-scale lithium-vanadium hybrid project will be in the UK
Pivot Power will collaborate with manufacture and system integrator redT on what is claimed to be the world’s first grid-scale hybrid battery energy storage project to use a combination of lithium-ion and vanadium technologies. Pivot Power is a relatively new company that has quickly risen to prominence in the UK over the past few months […]