Vanadium flow storage technology uses the flow of vanadium electrolyte across an ion exchange membrane. The advantages of this type of storage are safety, scalability and long-term operation. Vanadium electrolyte used in this battery is non-flammable and the battery operates at room temperature.
“Due to their inherent advantages in large-scale energy storage, vanadium flow batteries have the potential to service the growing need for grid-scale energy storage solutions in Australia, supporting and stabilising the national electricity grid as renewable energy generators continue to roll out,” Professor Talbot said.
It adopts the all-vanadium liquid flow battery energy storage technology independently developed by the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics. The project is expected to complete the grid-connected commissioning in June this year.
The power station is the first phase of the "200MW/800MWh Dalian Flow Battery Energy Storage Peak Shaving Power Station National Demonstration Project". It is the first 100MW large-scale electrochemical energy storage national demonstration project approved by the National Energy Administration.
It is the first 100MW large-scale electrochemical energy storage national demonstration project approved by the National Energy Administration. It adopts the all-vanadium liquid flow battery energy storage technology independently developed by the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics.
The flow battery company behind that project, Invinity Systems, is also supplying Australia’s first grid-scale flow battery storage, a 2MW/8MWh system co-located with a 6MWp solar PV plant in South Australia. Invinity will also supply a 2.8MW/8.4MWh battery storage system at a demonstration project in Alberta, Canada