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ESS Leaps Closer to Baseload Power
Iron Flow LDES manufacturer ESS has reached multiple key technical milestones significantly ahead of schedule.
- Per a company announcement, results demonstrate a 12 to 17 hour power duration – extending duration for less than $90/kWh.
- ESS estimates that its achievements have accelerated the roadmap by 18 months, and represent a 6.7% charge time improvement and 6.3% additional input energy per day at standard conditions.
- These advancements bring the firm significantly closer to its goal of delivering baseload power.
Fresh DOE Funding
The US Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity has announced funding of up to $15 million toward three storage technologies, two in the aqueous battery space:
- $4.1 million to iron – salt LDS manufacturer Inlyte Energy
- $5 million to Long Hill Energy Partners to deploy Quino Energy’s organic quinone flow battery.
- $5 million to Binghamton University towards a bio-mineralized lithium mixed-metal phosphate grid-scale BESS.
Notably, the DOE announcement highlights the projects’ ability to “support critical facilities and infrastructure during a power outage or other emergency” – a shift from the renewables and jobs creation language of the Biden administration.
Read more in Energy Storage News.
Extensive Invinity Interest in the UK
Nine UK developers have selected Invinity Energy Systems’ ENDURIUM vanadium flow batteries for proposals on projects each sized at 400MWh or more. The proposals are made through the UK LDES Cap & Floor scheme.
Read about the selection at Flow Batteries Europe.
Unsure of how Cap & Floor works? Check out this deep dive from Invinity.
BESS Living-Learning Lab
Georgia Tech has installed Stryten Energy’s Lead Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) into its living-learning medium-duration energy storage lab.
Stryten was chosen for its cost-effectiveness, high discharge rates, recyclability, and its storage system that integrates renewable energy and bi-directional charging.
More details at Evertiq, and video at Stryten’s LinkedIn.
EOS in the Russell 3000®
Publicly traded zinc battery manufacturer EOS has joined the Russell 3000® index of the US’s 3,000 largest publicly held companies.
Read EOS’s announcement on LinkedIn.
Smaller, Cheaper RFB Test Systems
Organic electrolyte developer BioZen has developed a low-cost, small-footprint flow cell / flow battery test system aimed at allowing RFB firms to rapidly accelerate R&D efforts.
The 28 x 33cm RedoxinoTM system starts at $300 as open-source kits and is being managed as a separate product.
Read BioZen’s announcement or purchase at Redoxino.com.
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