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Adoption, Deals, and Tech
Storion Closes Inaugural Customer
Storion Energy, the vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) joint venture of Stryten and Largo Clean Energy, has secured its first vanadium electrolyte customer.
Storion will provide 50MWh of vanadium electrolyte for a 9.6MW / 48MWh VRFB installation in Bellville, Texas, in collaboration with vanadium supplier Largo Physical Vanadium and RFB manufacturer Terraflow Energy.
Details (after the scroll) in Energy Storage News.
Canal Top Iron Flow
California has completed the Nexus Project, a 1.6 MW canal-top solar pilot – including a 75 kW iron-flow battery system. Each storage system container provides 400 kWh of peak energy and has a lifespan of over 20,000 cycles. News in PV Magazine.
Google and SRP Investigate Non-Lithium LDES Impact
Google is partnering with Arizona utility Salt River Project (SRP) in a research collaboration to accelerate the commercialization of non-lithium LDES by better understanding its real-world performance. Energy Storage News has the report.
Australia’s Abundance
Australia’s Capacity Investment Scheme (CIS) has awarded 4.13GW / 15.37GWh of battery storage capacity in its third tender round.
- The winners included 16 successful projects ranging from 100MW to 450MW, with storage durations ranging from 2 to 4 hours.
- In a sign of a growing storage supply ecosystem, the round drew 124 bids totaling approximately 34GW / 135GWh – eight times the capacity target.
Learn more in Energy Storage News.
Water-Based Deep Dives
Open Call: Contribute to the Volta Battery Report
Don’t miss your chance to apply to the battery industry’s most-read report. Volta Foundation’s 2025 Battery Report – a publication created by more than 100 battery experts and heralding over 125,000 annual views – is soliciting applications now. Information and sign-up link on LinkedIn.
Mark Your Calendars
Three Chances to Meet Octet
Octet’s Founder and CEO Onas Bolton will participate in The Sun Company’s Clean Energy Roundtable during Clean Energy Week New York.
- The topic: How will market forces and new financial models drive the next phase of clean energy deployment to meet rising demand for energy security?
- The date: September 24th
Details on LinkedIn. Space is limited – request an invitation at events@tsc.energy
Octet’s Chief Commercial Officer Emily Dickens will present in two events this fall:
- As a speaker in the International Zinc Association’s 2025 Zinc Metal Roundtable (Nov 5 – 7). Learn more
- As co-chair of the Zinc Battery Committee at NAATBatt’s Sodium-Zinc Battery Workshop (Nov 18-19). Details & Registration
We’ll see you there.
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