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Decarbonisation is urgently needed to prevent humanity from exceeding tipping points in the climate system[1]. The graph below [2] shows the worldwide primary energy consumption [in Exajoules] from 1995 to 2020. The financial crisis (2009) and the COVID pandemic (2020) both caused a temporary reduction, but in overall there is a clear upward trend in the worldwide need for energy.

Elestor Covered in ‘Tank Storage Magazine’: Flow Batteries Boosting the Energy Transition

Elestor Covered in ‘Tank Storage Magazine’:
– Flow Batteries Boosting the Energy Transition

ELECTRIFICATION, RENEWABLE energy sources and innovation are set to help the world on its way to achieving its climate and carbon neutrality targets by the 2050s. However, as yet there is no answer to this question: how can a stable electricity supply be guaranteed with no fossil-fuel baseload? Nowadays, there are rarely times when too little electricity is produced, as is evidenced by negative electricity markets. When the weather conditions favour high renewable energy production at a time of low demand, power plants are switched off and renewable electricity generation is voluntarily curtailed.

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Hydrogen-iron flow battery could deliver 25-year grid energy storage with 80% efficiency

Article on Interesting Engineering: A Dutch battery manufacturer has developed a revolutionary hydrogen-iron flow battery that could reportedly power grids for decades while maintaining stable efficiency across tens of thousands of charge-discharge cycles.

Article and interview in Solar365 magazine: Elestor to build largest hydrogen battery ever

For the energy transition to succeed, sufficient renewable generation is required, but also the ability to store that energy for longer periods. Technologies capable of storing energy between eight and one hundred hours can play a crucial role. A broad consortium has received €22 million in funding from the Dutch National Growth Fund for the so-called SLDBatt project (Sustainable Long Duration Battery), which focuses on long-duration electricity storage.

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With € 30 million, the SLDBatt project in the context of the Growth Fund Material Independence & Circular Batteries is the largest R&D project into battery technology for long-term storage of sustainably generated electricity in the Netherlands

Minister Hermans with SLDBatt consortium representatives at IEA Energy Storage Symposium in Rotterdam (credits: Mathias de Graag / RVO)

Elestor Covered in ‘Tank Storage Magazine’: Flow Batteries Boosting the Energy Transition