By Jason Deign Redox flow battery manufacturer ViZn Energy Systems yesterday announced a deal with Jabil Circuit that could see production increasing to 80MW per year in 2016. The manufacturing partnership should enable ViZn to fulfil in excess of 21MWh of “planned … Continue reading
The future of a major flow battery initiative appears in doubt after news emerged yesterday of financial troubles at Areva, the French energy giant. The company, which in October signed an energy storage cooperation agreement with Schneider Electric, announced yesterday afternoon it was suspending … Continue reading
ViZn Energy Systems has announced production of a zinc redox flow battery, the Z20, for Europe and the US. The 160kWh unit, from the company formerly known as Zinc Air, is aimed at the microgrid market.
According to a report in the Nikkei, a Sumitomo Electric Industries vanadium redox flow battery will soon be helping Hokkaido Electric Power to store electricity in order to stabilise its grid network. The 60MWh device will allow Hokkaido to add increasing amounts of renewable energy … Continue reading
Formed at the end of last year, the US Department of Energy (DoE) Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR) is already claiming its first research triumph. Supported by the JCESR project, researchers from the US DoE’s SLAC National Accelerator … Continue reading
Fraunhofer scientists have recently made an important breakthrough with the development of a redox flow battery that reaches stack power up to 25kW, with a cell size of 0.5 square metres. This is eight times larger than the previous A4-sized systems. They … Continue reading