Bloomberg reports on how the world’s leading independent gas and oil storage company Royal Vopak signs a Joint Development Agreement with Elestor to develop and scale large-scale hydrogen bromine flow batteries.
The joint ambition is to scale up the electricity storage capacity of these flow batteries from 200 kWh to 3,000 kWh before developing it to industrial scale. “This development is part of Vopak’s New Energy strategy,” says Patrick van de Voort, Division President Europe & Africa at Vopak. “Developing large-scale and low-cost electricity storage will become increasingly important and with this promising technology electricity can be stored in molecules on a large scale. We are looking forward to jointly developing these flow batteries.”
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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.
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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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Minister Hermans with SLDBatt consortium representatives at IEA Energy Storage Symposium in Rotterdam (credits: Mathias de Graag / RVO)
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