Flow Battery Vs. Tesla Battery Smackdown Looming
The startup UTE is promoting its latest vanadium flow battery project in Washington State with a not so subtle dig at the lithium-ion Tesla battery.
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Imergy Flow Battery Installed At GAT College In India
Imergy Power Systems has installed a 30 kilowatt, 120 kilowatt-hour ESP30 vanadium flow battery at Global Academy of Technology (GAT) College in Bangalore, India. Timothy Hennessy, President & Chief Operating Officer at Imergy Power, generously answered some questions about the project for CleanTechnica. Why is the Imergy energy storage system located … [continued]
“Countertop” Flow Battery Is Coal-Crushing Energy Storage On Steroids
Battered and bruised by natural gas and renewable energy, King Coal is facing a lethal new energy storage foe: next-generation flow batteries.
Imergy Power Systems Introduces Grid-Scale ESP250 Series Flow Batteries
A new ESP250 series of vanadium flow batteries has been introduced by advanced storage systems leader Imergy Power Systems. Its output capacity is 250 kilowatts (kW), with 1 megawatt-hour (MW) of energy storage capacity. Multiple batteries can be linked together to create one energy storage platform. When they are linked … [continued]
Imergy Completes Flow Battery Installation For European Restaurant
Two Imergy ESP4 series vanadium-based flow batteries have been installed at a restaurant called Trojane, which is located in the Slovenian Alps. The batteries will store electricity generated by the restaurant’s solar power system. Trojane already had a 49 kW solar photovoltaic system, a 30 kW heat and power system, … [continued]
Affordable Flow Battery Technology Reportedly Being Developed By Vinazene
An “affordable” flow battery technology is currently under development by researchers at Ann Arbor–based Vinazene Inc, in partnership with Grand Valley State University’s Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center and its Chemistry Department. The new project — which is funded by a DOE Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant — is based around … [continued]
Imergy Power Unveils New ESP30 Flow Battery Series
The CEO of Imergy Power, Bill Watkins, generously agreed to answer some questions related to the company’s new ESP30 flow battery. Check them out following an image of one of Imergy Power’s flow batteries. 1. How many MW of power and how many hours of storage do your flow batteries … [continued]
Newfound Energies Will Install 2 Remote American Vanadium CellCubes
Newfound Energies, specialists in design and installation of wind and solar energy systems for off-grid power—as well as grid utility locations—in Newfoundland and Labrador, has just committed for two 30kW–130kWh CellCube vanadium flow energy storage systems to be integrated into a remote microgrid fuel and logistics center. The deal is still subject … [continued]
GE Flow Battery Aims For 240-Mile EV Range… And Beyond
We were just fooling around with the notion that new fuel cell technology could shake up the electric vehicle market, when here comes GE with another alternative: a flow battery that combines with a fuel cell to push EV range up to the Department of Energy’s goal of 240 miles, … [continued]
Radical New Flow Battery: Look Ma, No Membrane!
A team of researchers at MIT has come up with a membrane-free flow battery, and that could mean that the solar powered future we’ve been looking forward to is even closer than we thought. Flow batteries have a huge advantage when it comes to utility-scale energy storage, especially for intermittent … [continued]
