UK Takes Off The Clean Energy Gloves, Claps Back At US
The UK energy storage startup Invinity is launching its new flow battery into the global clean energy transition, Trump or no Trump.
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New Coal-Killing Flow Battery Tool Now Available, For Free
The flow battery field is getting a powerful shot of adrenaline in the form of a free new modeling tool that compresses the R&D timeline.
A Flow Battery Stealth Attack Is Coming For Your Fossil Fuels
Five electric cooperatives in the US will each host a new vanadium flow battery from the UK firm Invinity, in a long duration energy storage demonstration project overseen by the US Department of Energy
Vanadium Flow Batteries Could Leapfrog Over Pumped Hydro For Long Duration Energy Storage
Flow batteries sport a number of advantages compared to lithium-ion batteries, including the ability to restart quickly after being idled for long periods of time.
China Making Big Battery Storage Push In 2019
China is making a major push to add grid storage batteries to its utility grid. In addition to lithium-ion batteries, it is also encouraging vanadium flow installations like the one in Dalian province.
Why We Need More Solar Storage Solutions
Across the world, power downtime keeps going up. Power outages increased in frequency and were more widespread in 2016, affecting 33% more people, showing that we definitely need a solar storage solution.
Floodgates Open For Vanadium Flow Batteries
Vanadium flow batteries offer the kind of low cost, high capacity energy storage solutions that will help transform the wind and the sun into power sources that rival fossil fuel plants for stability and reliability, but as always there are a couple of catches: where to get the silvery transition … [continued]
“Exceptional Step Forward” For Energy Storage In New York City
New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority is one of the largest single users of energy in the US, and today the agency is officially launching a next-generation energy storage system that is bound to turn heads. MTA has installed three CellCube vanadium flow batteries on the 25th floor setback of … [continued]
NREL To Test Cutting Edge Vanadium Flow Battery
For those of you who know your vanadium, the real question about vanadium flow batteries is: where’s the vanadium going to come from? But for now, let’s start with the company American Vanadium, which has announced that the new commercially available CellCube vanadium-based flow battery is now undergoing tests at … [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]
