One of the world’s most respected newspapers feature explores how flow batteries work and explain why the world needs them.
Utilities build flow batteries big enough to oust coal and gas fired power plants, The Washington Post writes in a report that makes it clear that an energy system that is based on renewables such as solar and wind, must also have large-scale, long-term energy storage solutions.
Flow batteries are ideal for the purpose. “This is what the power plants of the future may look like: Instead of stashing coal and gas next to boilers or combustion turbines, they’ll use electrons to store energy inside of giant batteries,” the journalists write.
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.
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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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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)
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