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$ 90 million for critical and strategic minerals

On November 2, the Quebec government made public its five-year plan to develop an economy and provincial autonomy…

Vanadium flow battery installed at Native American-run fire station in Southern California

GRID Alternatives recently installed a vanadium flow battery (VFB) supplied by Invinity Energy Systems at a fire station…

The case for vanadium storage batteries is picking up speed

Wildfires raging across California in August have caused rolling blackouts, something locals have not seen since the state…

Flow battery to be paired with solar at South African vanadium mine’s microgrid system

A solar-plus-storage microgrid being deployed at an alloys mine in South Africa will feature a vanadium flow battery…

Flow Batteries to Combine With Tidal Power To Produce World’s First Continuous Green Hydrogen

The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), Orkney, Scotland will deploy an Invinity Energy Systems (AIM:IES) 1.8 MWh flow…

TNG Ltd launches vanadium redox flow battery business

Strategic metals company TNG Ltd (ASX: TNG) has launched a new vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) business unit as part…

Quebec Does Not Want to Miss the Strategic Minerals Train

Used in the manufacture of batteries, electronic devices, or even medical equipment, these minerals come largely from Asia…

The Power of Implementing a Vanadium Redox Flow Battery on the UMass Amherst Campus

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Why Vanadium Flow Batteries May Be The Future Of Utility-Scale Energy Storage

Earlier this year, the California Energy Commission (CEC) published a $20 million solicitation to fund research projects for the deployment…

Fight Against Pollution: Flow Battery an ‘Efficient Replacement’ to Diesel Generators! IIT Delhi Demonstrates Working Prototype

New Delhi: The Sustainable Environergy Research Lab (SERL) of Chemical Engineering Department, IIT Delhi has demonstrated a working…

Discover The Little-Known Metal Many Experts Now Believe Could Be The Solution To Renewable Energy’s Biggest Challenges

Is This Metal Destined to Replace Lithium and Transform Everything from the Mining Industry to Long Duration Energy…

A Solution to Engineering Energy-Saving Smart Materials

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Solving California’s energy puzzle: Vanadium, artificial intelligence and everything in-between

California has long been held up as a gold standard for the US in adopting renewable energy, especially…

Go with the flow: Transition to Vanadium batteries is gathering pace

Following up on his interview with ‘Vanadium Queen’, Maria Skylass-Kazacos published in our September issue, Dermot Martin looks…

California Energy Commission funding energy storage, microgrid firms

The California Energy Commission (CEC) selected UK-based Invinity Energy Systems for funding as part of an initiative for…

Disordered Rock Salt And Transition Metal Anodes — Engineering The Batteries Of The Future

People like to say nothing is sure but death and taxes. But there is something else we can…

Where now for the world’s largest energy storage battery in China?

As the COVID-19 pandemic is still wreaking havoc in Europe and beyond, China is starting to go back…

AI Technology Can Predict Vanadium Flow Battery Performance and Cost

Vanadium flow batteries (VFBs) are promising for stationary large-scale energy storage due to their high safety, long cycle…

A Brief History of Flow Batteries

The Incredible, Mighty Airship Called La France La France was a 170-foot long, 66,000-cubic-foot monster by the standards…

Best membrane for Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries

A new research paper looks at the membranes used for applications in vanadium redox flow batteries. It outlines…

Pineapple Power Corp: the cash shell with an alternative energy mission

Pineapple Power is a cash shell, or Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) as it is more commonly known in…

Residential vanadium flow battery systems under development for Australia’s solar-storage market

Energy storage systems based around vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs) are being developed for residential use in Australia…

The restart to Canada’s economy must “think big” and “be green”…

Recent comments by Prime Minister Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s new Minister of Finance, that the restart to…

Flow battery capabilities and performance –(part 1 of 2)

In this first part of EEWorld’s “virtual roundtable” discussion on flow batteries, our panelists delve into the impact…

Battery metals to boom despite widespread Covid-19 disruption

Battery metals, which are used in modern energy-efficient electrical products, are playing an increasingly important role in climate…

IIT Madras Researchers Develop Alternatives To Conventional Batteries

An IIT Madras team has developed kW-scale batteries for application in energy storage. These can even be integrated…

Making solar + batteries work for all

Trials of large-scale battery capabilities in Australia are showing great promise; behind the meter, households are buying into…

Battery trends: Innovative rent model for vanadium electrolyte

Global flow battery company Invinity Energy Systems, has partnered with integrated vanadium producer Bushveld Minerals, to offer an…

Bushveld advances electrolyte, solar, mini-grid projects

London-listed integrated primary vanadium producer and energy storage provider, Bushveld Minerals, the owner of assets in South Africa,…

Ferro-Alloy Resources electrolyte for vanadium flow batteries

Ferro-Alloy Resources Limited (LON:FAR), the vanadium mining and processing company with operations based in Southern Kazakhstan, has announced that the Company…

Potential Contenders for Battery Supremacy

Lithium-ion batteries have been a revolutionary technology. Their high energy and power density has made the electric car…

QEM’s Julia Creek Vanadium Project, an answer to the Energy Storage Puzzle

What’s common between an electric drill, google maps, Wi-Fi technology, refrigerator, polymer banknotes, and a notebook. Well! All…

Long-duration energy storage makes progress but regulation lags technology

If you were building an electrical grid from scratch (with no regard to regulations or finance), then long-duration…

U.S. Vanadium calls for government help

U.S. Vanadium Holding Company LLC, an Arkansas-based producer of high-purity vanadium pentoxide, is urging the United States government to take…

Flow Batteries: Technology Synergies Will Provide Grid Stabilization

Energy storage technologies appear to be following a trajectory similar to renewable generation. As prices continue to drop…

Flow batteries – What can you use them for?

Flow batteries are suited for use in several application areas, including utility-scale energy storage, microgrids, renewables integration, backup…

A new design for flow batteries

In 2020, China plans to launch the largest battery complex in the world with a capacity of 800…

Energy storage systems to pave the way for the next phase of the energy transition, says GlobalData

In the electricity distribution sector, investment in energy storage systems (ESS) creates long-term reliability and resilience. ESS is…

Energy Storage Added to Corporate Sustainability Toolkit

The momentum arguably started with words and not actions- namely corporate commitments around energy use reductions as part…

Battery Storage Is Delivering Value For Solar Developers And Energy Consumers. But What About Cost?

COVID-19 has led to lock-downs. That, in turn, has led to less energy use, creating an opportunity for…

Guidehouse: Energy storage to support electric vehicle charging could reach 1,900MW by 2029

Stationary energy storage in support of electric vehicles (EVs) charging could reach a global installed capacity of 1,900MW…

What Is Next For Energy Storage Technology?

2019 was another blockbuster year for energy storage deployment. One question seems to stay at the forefront: When…

Meet the startup building a sustainable alternative to Tesla’s Powerwall – a residential vanadium flow battery

A battery that doesn’t blow up, doesn’t use scarce rare earth metals, and can power your house for…

Demand for battery metals to jump 500% by 2050

Production of battery metals such as graphite, lithium, and cobalt (and vanadium) will have to increase by nearly…

Vanadium-Based Materials: Next Generation Electrodes Powering the Battery Revolution?

As the world transitions away from fossil fuels, energy storage, especially rechargeable batteries, could have a big role…

Argus Media: Vanadium market eyes fresh demand on EU stimulus

The European Commission's unveiling of a €750bn ($872bn) "green" infrastructure investment package this week is fuelling hopes of…

Enabling the grid of the future requires more than one energy storage technology in the toolkit

Energy generation has never been a single technology market. Gas, coal, nuclear, hydro, solar, and wind all make…

51MWh vanadium flow battery system ordered for wind farm in northern Japan

Transmission and distribution network operator Hokkaido Electric Power has contracted Sumitomo Electric Industries to supply a grid-scale flow…

Tiny Little Shrimp Could Spark Huge Energy Storage Breakthrough

Shrimp (May) Be The Key to Energy Storage That Flows Low cost, large-scale energy storage is the key…

SAIL’s BSP begins production of vanadium rails for Indian Railways

Kolkata: Steel Authority of India NSE 3.24 %'s Limited (SAIL) Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) flagged off the first…

SA Inc must act now to take ownership of battery metals value chain – Bushveld

Bold action is needed by South Africa Inc to take ownership of the significant potential share of the…

Get on the grid: the coming vanadium battery revolution

Here at The Armchair Trader, we think the global transition to clean energy is going to be one…

Scientists develop low-cost, high power density vanadium flow battery stack

The development of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar energy is limited by their inherently random…

Understanding vanadium redox flow batteries

Battery technology | In the second of a two-part series for this journal, Jens Noack, Nataliya Roznyatovskaya, Chris…

A technology ahead of its time: the emerging world of flow batteries

For the past ten years, Anthony Price has organized the International Flow Battery Forum, an annual conference to…

Enel to trial battery innovations on Balearics

Enel Green Power has won a tender in Spain to integrate two new types of energy storage technology…

Vanadium gets its day in the sun as the new national security metal

Move over, uranium, and rare earths. Today U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross initiated a vanadium import inquiry.…

Climate smart mining offers opportunities

The global shift to renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar, and electric vehicles (EV) requires a…

New battery tech revives vanadium interest

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Vanadium fuels growing demand for VRFBs

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Technology Metals rises on signing MoU with leading vanadium redox flow battery company

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Pivot Power develops hybrid energy storage system

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California Utility Is Set to Build Giant 770-MW Energy Battery Storage

Developers are awaiting approval by the California Public Utilities Commission to begin construction on 770 MW of four-hour…

A Protocol for Making Renewable Energy Sizing and Selection Decisions

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Are EVs holding back stationary energy storage systems?

The stationary battery sector is in flux, leaving many to wonder where to put their time and resources.…

Shining a light on VRFBs for energy storage applications

While the majority of current vanadium demand underwritten by the steel industry as an additive to strengthen various…

Ameresco report touts potential, challenges of flow batteries in military microgrid energy storage

Flow battery technology in energy storage could eventually replace or compete with diesel generation and lithium-ion as part…

Invinity: ‘Flow batteries suitable for opportunities lithium cannot reach’

While energy storage is currently “synonymous with lithium-ion”, there exist opportunities for flow batteries to target areas of…

Are Flow Batteries The Future Of Energy Storage?

Rows of huge tanks full of chemical solutions storing energy generated from massive solar and wind farms and…

A Truly Green Electric Grid Will Need Very Big Batteries

Sometimes the sun just shines too brightly on California. The state is such a glutton for solar energy—a million…

The Accidental Engineer Who Invented the Sustainable Vanadium Battery

How did you become interested in science and engineering? While I was at school I never really saw…

Flow Batteries: Energy Storage Option for a Variety of Uses

Energy storage is becoming increasingly important to the power industry. Lithium-ion battery technology has been implemented in many…

Squeezing More Solar Energy From Solar Panels, With Ground Albedo

If the NIMBY syndrome ever runs amok and the US runs out of places to put new solar…

South Korean Government Allows Flow Battery to Be Used for ESS

South Korean Government has prepared a system that will allow VRFB (Vanadium Redox Flow Battery), which has zero…

This Could be Our Best Tool to Make Renewable Energy Cheaper

Nature isn’t always generous with its secrets. That’s why some researchers look into unusual places for solutions to…

Russian Scientists Created Revolutionary Key Nanoelements for Neurocomputers

Russian scientists have created nano switches. It is the first time ever that has become possible. The devices…

The long read: Go big, go with the flow

While lithium batteries have taken center stage for energy storage, vanadium redox flow batteries could gain considerable traction…

At a crossroads: The connected future of EVs, solar, energy storage and software

As a new decade dawns, there's cause for optimism that the 2020s will see the transition to clean…

Korean flow battery company signs JV agreement for 200MWh US factory

Former Governor of New York George Pataki has welcomed the possible siting and construction of a vanadium redox…

U.S. Utilities Rush To Procure Energy Storage Capacity

More and more utilities across the United States plan to add more wind and solar capacity and retire…

Everyone’s Favorite Climate Solution Has a Fire Problem

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Mining and Metals Forecast 2020: Industry Trends

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Redox flow batteries for renewable energy storage

As energy storage becomes an increasingly integral part of a renewables-based system, interest in and discussion around non-lithium…

CEC excludes Lithium-ion from grant funding in ‘Expression of no-confidence’, says expert

A leading energy storage expert says California’s decision in December to exclude lithium-ion technology from applying for energy…

China’s hydro giant tests the limits of PV integration

With abundant water resources from three rivers – including the Yellow River – and 100,000 square kilometers of…

Okaya Partners With IIT Delhi for “VRFB” Battery Research

Okaya Power Group (OPG), a leading battery and power backup products manufacturing company, has announced that it has…

California has big clean energy ambitions, and is looking for better energy storage to realize them

Lithium-ion batteries have dominated the storage space for the last decade, largely due to declining costs caused by…

Gates, Bezos bet on flow battery technology, a potential rival to big bets on lithium-ion

The U.S. energy storage market is expected to grow by a factor of 12 in the next five…

What a Year! 10 Stories That Propelled Energy Storage in 2019

More batteries installed. More markets opening up. And grid storage making itself indispensable in unanticipated ways. For too…

Flow Batteries And 3 Other Game-Changing Technologies For Storing Renewable Energy

Energy storage technologies are evolving quickly, but there is still a long way to go before they can…

Flow batteries: leaders starting to live up to promise, says Navigant

Flow batteries have so far, failed to live up to the disruptive potential they promise, a new report…

Shining a light on VRFB for energy storage applications

While the majority of current vanadium demand underwritten by the steel industry as an additive to strengthen various…

Trudeau government investigating how Canadian mining industry can provide rare-earth minerals critical to new economy

Collaboration on critical minerals with Washington could attract investment to Canadian exploration and mining projects as well as…

The three key technologies Bill Gates says could help the entire planet – #2 Flow battery: The better battery

Hot on the heels of a major announcement that Bill Gates and 27 other astronomically wealthy individuals –…

Perth Vanadium Battery Supplier – VSUN Energy – Sells Units to Two Agribusinesses in Victoria

Australian agribusinesses are choosing vanadium redox flow batteries to store vast amounts of renewable solar energy because of…

Agility in Managing the Grid: The Case for Batteries

With just over 9 GW deployed in 2018 worldwide, grid battery storage remains a small business today, but recent…

Report Shows Massive Growth in U.K. Energy Storage Projects

RenewableUK's recently published statistics show the number of applications to build battery storage projects in the United Kingdom is continuing to…

[Korean Startups] Start-up takes stab at lithium-ion industry

Standard Energy is a start-up that built its business on vanadium. Along with Kim, who has a doctoral…

Lockheed Martin locked onto 2020 flow battery launch

Defense and aerospace giant Lockheed Martin wants to be the first disruptive company of the flow battery era,…

Huge Battery Investments Drop Energy-Storage Costs Faster Than Expected, Threatening Natural Gas

The global energy transition is happening faster than the models predicted, according to a report released today by…

Hybrid battery systems: The best of both worlds

Lithium-ion batteries make up the lion’s share of installed non-hydro storage systems so far, but flow batteries have…

Australian Vanadium sells vanadium redox flow battery to a dairy farm in Victoria

The company’s goal is to grow the demand for redox flow battery to ensure that the market for…

Mining companies edge towards renewable energy options

Mining companies are starting to heed the transition towards a low-carbon future by investing in wind energy, solar,…

Batteries going with the flow

Australia is one of the fastest-growing energy storage markets in the world with the most mature storage technologies…

Battery Energy Storage: Are All the Bugs Out?

Major energy project developers and utility buyers are on the same page regarding utility scale renewable energy projects…

Build a Better Battery for Wind and Solar Storage, and the Energy Sector will Beat a Path to your Door

For all their many virtues, wind and solar power have one major flaw: at some point, even in…

Long read: Flow batteries scale up to GW production

Plans for a gigawatt factory in Saudi Arabia, bullet-proof warranties and an international vanadium rental service are propelling…

One Battery Material Sector Is Cheering For Lower Prices

Lower prices of vanadium, a metal mainly known for strengthening steel, are key in the drive to increase…

Adding vanadium to lithium-ion batteries makes it possible to charge them “in a matter of minutes”

Many investigators have looked for alternatives to lithium-ion batteries, with others seeking out ways to tweak the performance of…

How Inexpensive Must Energy Storage Be for Utilities to Switch to 100 Percent Renewables?

Last week, the city of Los Angeles inked a deal for a solar-plus-storage system at a record-low price.…

Flow Batteries Could be a Game Changer for Electric Cars

Energy consumption is at an all-time high, but stores of fossil fuels are diminishing. The switch to renewable…

Australian government sees potential in vanadium

Australia’s federal government gave ‘major project status’ to Australian Vanadium’s (ASX: AVL) namesake project located in the Murchison…

Vanadium is essential for renewables in a circular economy

Vanadium just might be the most environmentally friendly, large-scale battery material in a circular economy. Environmental stewardship, one…

Victoria apple farmer taps vanadium flow battery to better harvest the sun

A Victorian apple farmer has tapped commercial-scale battery storage – in this case, a 20kW/80kWh vanadium redox flow…

Energy’s Future – Battery and Storage Technologies

The efforts to lift our power generation and electrical grid into the 21st century is a multipronged effort. It needs a…

‘Lithium’s not the only game in town’: Energy storage hopefuls eye breakthrough

After numerous false starts, bankruptcies and billions of dollars invested, developers of alternatives to lithium-ion batteries for electricity…

UK’s blackout first-responders included 475MW of batteries

A report out today on the causes of the UK’s recent blackout, where electricity supply to 5% of…

Vanadium Is The World’s Most Important Metal

Vanadium isn’t exactly what we think of when we speak of technology. But it’s one of the world’s…

How do batteries store energy?

Renewable energy generation does not always meet demand. This is for the simple reason that consumers may wish…

Professor says continuously rechargeable batteries are on the way

Could we be close to having sustainable, continuously rechargeable batteries that power our lives? University of Canterbury (UC)…

Australia’s biggest behind-the-meter energy storage officially launched

The Monash Smart Energy City project, developed as part of the University’s goal to achieve zero net emissions…

Investors warm to integrated solar/storage package

London — Two UK energy transition trailblazers anticipate a flood of demand for their behind-the-meter infrastructure package. A vanadium…

UK power outage highlights need for grid-scale Li-ion and Vanadium batteries

UK power outage cuts critical services and highlights need for grid-scale batteries or additional capacity to balance wind…

The vanadium redox flow battery – A game changer for energy storage safety

Vanitec discusses the safety of the vanadium redox flow battery and its application in renewable energy projects. The global…

Southern Company launches new Energy Storage Research Center

Southern Company recently joined with industry researchers to launch the Energy Storage Research Center, a unique research and development…

A flow battery ‘competitive with the LG Chems and Samsungs of this world’

The following is an excerpt from the posted Q&A article. Read the full story here... Seeking to create…

Solar-charged vanadium flow machine pre-qualifies for UK’s frequency response market

‘Flow batteries’ could provide frequency response in the UK for the first time ever, as a modestly sized…

New battery tech revives vanadium interest

The strength and durability of steel and other alloys is greatly enhanced by adding a small amount of…

Are lower vanadium prices triggering a wave of giant new VRFB developments?

The notion that safer, longer-lasting vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFB) are better suited for large stationary storage than…

How energy storage technologies are set to transform the energy landscape

Over the last few decades, the demand for electricity has grown considerably in India and many other developing…

RedT Energy gets planning approval for UK Superhub Project

AIM-listed firm redT Energy (RED), which specializes in energy storage infrastructure solutions, announced on Monday that it had…

Throughput vs. Revenues: Making the most from battery storage

The energy landscape is undergoing an unprecedented change, which is accelerating as market barriers to distributed energy are…

‘Magic applications’ and commercial realities: flow battery industry meets this week in France

The International Flow Battery Forum is taking place this week (July 8-12) and long-time organiser, Anthony Price of…

Prospects for Long-Life Batteries in Waterway Transportation

Until very recently, the short useable life expectancy of electrochemical batteries and their high replacement cost deterred companies…

Electricity storage could be the next technology that changes life on earth

Remember the transformation cellphones made to the communications industry? For the telecom industry — and for all of…

Governor gives behind-the-meter storage a US$55m boost on New York’s Long Island

Customers in Long Island, New York, that install commercial energy storage systems of up to 5MW and residential…

Utility-Scale Energy Storage Will Enable a Renewable Grid

The way the world gets its electricity is undergoing a rapid transition, driven by both the increased urgency…

The Influence of Storage

By all outward appearances, the transmission grid and distribution network have not changed much over the last 100…

Wind And Solar Power Set To Dominate Power Mix By 2050, As Coal Continues To Decline

Wind and solar power are now the cheapest way to add new power in two-thirds of countries around…

Batteries included: How Australia is charging up for a revolution

The rise of Australia’s battery metals sector over the last few years — particularly in Western Australia —…

UTSA develops systems to construct power islands and live off the grid

More than 3400 lightning strikes and damaging winds interrupted power to approximately 57,000 residents in San Antonio, TX…

For environment and Nevada economy, Amodei should embrace clean energy, says UNR professor

As someone who has taught U.S. Energy Policy and the Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Policy courses at…

Innovative vanadium electrolyte rental product for industrial use

Bushveld Minerals through its 84%-owned energy subsidiary, Bushveld Energy, has enabled the successful deployment of an innovative…

Bushveld Minerals unveils innovative vanadium electrolyte rental venture

“Now vanadium takes its place alongside gold, silver, and platinum, as a metal that can be leased, opening…

Kingdom Mugadza of Tirisano Partners in Battery Storage Development

Tirisano Partners, one of South Africa's emerging global leaders in investment acquisition, is taking their partnership with several…

An affordable way to store clean energy

Renewable energy sources can fluctuate in the amount of power they are able to provide—which is why batteries…

Finkel backs unheralded Aussie battery tech companies to go global

As investment in energy storage continues to grow around the world, Australia's chief scientist Dr. Alan Finkel says…

Graphite and the renewable revolution

Intermittent energy sources such as solar and wind power are an increasingly viable option for small and large-scale…

Storage + Storage Renewable Energy Projects: A Canadian Opportunity?

One of the themes of Ontario’s revised 2017 Long-Term Energy Plan, Delivering Fairness and Choice (the “LTEP”), was that…

Is Vanadium the “Valyrian Steel” of the Energy Transition?

In the real world, its equivalent just might be vanadium. This silvery-grey metal was once used to construct some of…

An Unexpected Current That’s Remaking American Politics

New forms of electricity storage are making the grid more renewable and more reliable—and may change the politics…

EES AWARD 2019 winners with path-breaking storage solutions

Efficient storage technology is crucial for equipping our systems for the renewable energy mix of the future. At…

Lithium Australia Weighs Options Vanadium Resource

Lithium Australia added a maiden vanadium resource of 185 million tonnes grading at 0.33% V2O5, the company announced in…

How can the battery sector hedge against volatile vanadium prices?

Stationary storage is going to be big business. By 2040, BNEF reckons the global energy storage market will…

Germany’s SCHMID plans Saudi energy storage JV with GW-scale production

May 15 (Renewables Now) - German technology group SCHMID and two Saudi investors plan to form a joint…

CellCube and Pangea Energy Have Signed LOI for 50MW/200MWh in Australia

CELLCUBE ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS INC. ("CellCube" or the "Company") (CUBE.CN) (CECBF) (Frankfurt: 01X) (WKN A2JMGP) is pleased to announce…

BlackRock Metals has a customer for its titanium

BlackRock Metals said to have found takers for its titanium production. It is thus taking a new step towards…

Clean Energy Storage Demand is Surging 1,445%!

CLEAN ENERGY STORAGE DEMAND IS SURGING 1,445% The phrase “clean energy” has been tossed around quite a bit…

California Flips Switch on First Grid-Connected Flow Battery

(TNS) — The California Independent System Operator — the nonprofit that maintains reliability for the bulk of the…

Bushveld Minerals: A large-scale battery storage contender

AIM-listed integrated primary vanadium producer Bushveld Minerals’ energy subsidiary, Bushveld Energy, who is currently proving the viability of…

Vanadium: A Key Driver in Energy Storage

March 7, 2019 - Vanadium is a peculiar metal in that it naturally exists in no less than…

California ISO Adds Vanadium Redox Flow Battery to the Grid

The four-year pilot project aims to test and evaluate the best ways to manage and maximize new storage…

Products Chemours partners UET to boost flow batteries in marketplace

Chemours Company, an American chemistry firm has teamed up with Washington-headquartered redox flow battery manufacturer UniEnergy Technology (UET) with an eye on…

Solar storage team eye green peaker plants

Canadian company CellCube is teaming up with Hive Energy and Immersa to jointly build and develop grid-scale solar…

Vanadium disulphide stabilised for faster charging batteries

The breakthrough from a team at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) could improve battery performance for consumer electronics, solar…

How energy-deprived areas benefit from vanadium redox batteries

Vanadium redox flow batteries or VRFB are capable of providing free energy to power-deprived communities for more than…

Bright Ideas Will Usher in the Clean Energy Future

As we increase the percentage of electricity generated from renewables, one of the concerns is intermittency and the need…

Nano Flowcell Quantino covers 218,000 miles on flow batteries

Last week the company revealed that it has covered 218,000 test miles (350,000 kilometers) in its Quantino 48Volt…

Steel Industry to Adopt the Largest Application of Ferrovanadium

Ferrovanadium is an alloy used as an additive to improve the quality of ferroalloys. It is also used…

Hawaii utilities seek more renewables, storage and now grid services too

For states that are serious about moving to renewable energy, there’s nothing quite like passing a legally binding…

US energy CEOs see future power system that includes renewables, gas and storage

Las Vegas — The future US power system will likely include a mix a renewable energy, natural gas and…

New AC-DC Mobile Microgrid Holds Promise of More Efficient Power Distribution

A team at the University of Calgary plans to build a mobile microgrid that promises to improve the…

T&D Asset Operators Look to Critical Energy Storage

Upgrading and deferring existing wires and substations may be the most common application of battery storage utilized for…

A Bus-Sized Robot Will Soon Be Mining the Ocean Floor

Four kilometers below sea level between Mexico and Hawaii sit vast deposits of rare metals central to technologies…

Gate-controlled VO2 phase transition for high-performance smart windows

Vanadium dioxide (VO2) is a promising material for developing energy-saving “smart windows,” owing to its infrared thermochromism induced…

Rock Science: Vanadium and Its Minerals

Of the roughly 155 vanadium-bearing minerals, many of them brightly colored, collectors are probably most familiar with vanadinite,…

‘World first’ grid-scale lithium-vanadium hybrid project will be in the UK

Pivot Power will collaborate with manufacture and system integrator redT on what is claimed to be the world’s…

Feature: Power shift

Our energy system is woefully antiquated and based on a preposterously rickety 19th century concept. But a revolution…

Bushveld Minerals to supply Vametco mine with power from vanadium battery mini-grid

Bushveld Energy has just successfully completed a pilot with South African electricity group Eskom for a redox battery…

Vanadium Element Facts

Discovery of Vanadium Dr. Doug Stewart Vanadium was discovered in 1801 by the Spanish scientist Andres Manuel del…

Fully inkjet-printed vanadium dioxide-based radio-frequency switches for flexible reconfigurable components

January 24, 2019, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Inkjet-printed switches make multiple frequency bands easier and cheaper…

Purdue scientists test flow battery for EVs, claim 300-mile range

According to scientists at Purdue University, the best way to charge electric car batteries may be to take…

Vanadium-powered batteries waiting to rescue Eskom

As the government considers the restructuring of Eskom, energy minister Jeff Radebe has acknowledged the importance of including…

Facts About Vanadium

Vanadium is a medium-hard, steel-blue metal. Although a lesser-known metal, it is quite valuable in the manufacturing industry…

CellCube signs deal for 100-MW energy storage project in US

TORONTO — CellCube Energy Storage Systems Inc. has signed an agreement with a US-based energy asset development company…

How three battery types work in grid-scale energy storage systems

Back in 2017, GTM Research published a report on the state of the U.S. energy storage market through…

Vanadium dioxide is going to Revolutionize the Electronics for Aerospace and Neuromorphic Computing

By Sibel Nicholson Date: February, 07th 2018 Scientists claim that VO2 can outperform silicon and give rise to a…

Interdisciplinary collaboration yields hardest, thinnest coatings yet discovered

Eventually, your phone charger is going to die. Month after month of getting pushed and pulled into and…

Russian Scientists Develop Unique Material for Next-Generation Nuclear Reactors

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