WASHINGTON, Nov. 20, 2023 — There’s a century-old technology that’s taking the grid-scale battery market by storm. Based on water, virtually fireproof, easy to recycle and cheap at scale, vanadium ...

China has switched on a record‑breaking vanadium flow battery in Xinjiang, pairing it directly with a 1 gigawatt solar farm ...

The definition of a battery is a device that  generates electricity via reduction-oxidation (redox) reaction and also stores chemical energy (Blanc et al., 2010). This stored energy ...

Vanadium flow batteries are one of the most promising technologies for large-scale energy storage, due to their long cycle life, excellent recyclability, and low fire risk. However, their uptake is ...

Vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFB) are among the most promising technological developments for the high-efficiency storage of renewable energy. The most commonly used commercial ion-exchange ...

Benjamin Rogers (left) and Sarbajit Banerjee have created a dynamic database on the global vanadium economy at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI. The database is intended to promote the use of vanadium ...

A firm in China has announced the successful completion of world’s largest vanadium flow battery project – a 175 megawatt (MW) / 700 megawatt-hour (MWh) energy storage system. The Xinhua Ushi ESS ...

US Vanadium is making moves to increase production of high-purity vanadium products, including an electrolyte for vanadium flow batteries. The company says it will spend $2.1 million to expand its ...

Scientists from the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences and the University of Warwick have conducted a review of all existing membranes for vanadium redox flow batteries (VRBs), in a bid to ...

Earlier this year, the California Energy Commission (CEC) published a $20 million solicitation to fund research projects for the deployment of long-duration energy storage. The objective was to ...

Are liquid, virtually fireproof, recyclable batteries the future of grid-scale storage? There’s a century-old battery technology that’s taking the grid-scale market by storm. Based on water, virtually ...