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Massive Vanadium
- China has completed primary construction on the world’s largest vanadium redox flow battery. Backed by China Huaneng Group, the 200 MW/1 GWh VRFB is expected to generate 1.72 TWh of electricity annually and to reduce CO₂ emissions by over 1.6 million tonnes per year. Full story at ESS News.
- The Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology (ICT) has begun testing on a 2 MW / 20 MWh vanadium redox flow battery — Europe’s largest VRFB in operation. Learn more, also at ESS News.
$22.7M DOE Funds to Eos Energy
As part of a broader loan commitment, the U.S. Department of Energy has released $22.7 million to Eos Energy for its zinc-based aqueous battery systems. The disbursement is a promising signal for aqueous storage tech in the current administration. Dive deeper at Energy Storage News.
TerraFlow + Quino Join Joint Venture Movement
TerraFlow Energy and Quino Energy announced a strategic collaboration placing Quino’s quinone chemistry within TerraFlow’s LDUPS™ (Long Duration Uninterruptible Power Supply) platform. Get the details in BEST Magazine.
- The architecture is optimized for high-throughput environments like AI data centers, industrial automation and off-grid infrastructure.
- The move follows similar partnerships including Stryten and Largo’s Storion Energy, which closed earlier this year; as well as Honeywell’s $27.5M ESS investment in 2023.
BBB Fallout Shield?
Inlyte Energy CEO Antonio Baclig opines how battery companies less dependent on foreign supply chains – such as many aqueous battery firms – stand to better weather the storm of “Big Beautiful Bill” renewable energy cuts. Read his argument on LinkedIn.
LDES for Islands Worldwide
Global nonprofit Long Duration Energy Storage Council is partnering with Italian-based Greening the Islands (GTI) Foundation to promote LDES solutions for GTI’s constituency.
- As islands worldwide look to replace imported diesel with cleaner energy solutions like microgrids, the partnership supports LDES as a safer, more practical alternative over lithium batteries.
- Catch the whole story at EnergyTech.
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