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The flow battery is one of the more interesting ideas for grid energy storage – after all, how many batteries combine electron current with fluid current? If you’re interested in …read more Continue reading An Open Source Flow Battery
Battery news typically covers the latest, greatest laboratory or industry breakthroughs to push modern devices further and faster. Could you build your own flow battery stationary storage for home-built solar …read more Continue reading Open Source Residential Energy Storage
Vanadium flow batteries are an interesting project, with the materials easily obtainable by the DIY hacker. To that effect [Cayrex2] over on YouTube presents their take on a small, self-contained …read more Continue reading A Vanadium Redux Flow Battery You Can Build
PNNL researchers have discovered that dissolving a simple sugar into the electrolyte in a flow battery boosts peak power output by a remarkable 60%. What’s more, after being constantly cycled for a year, the battery lost almost none of its capacity.Con… Continue reading Adding sugar to flow battery creates huge power and longevity boost
We’re all familiar with batteries. Whether we’re talking about disposable AAs in the TV remote, or giant facilities full of rechargeable cells to store power for the grid, they’re a …read more Continue reading Weird Energy Storage Solutions Could Help The Grid Go Renewable
The Chinese city of Dalian has just switched on a world-leading new energy storage system, expected to supply enough power for up to 200,000 residents each day. With an initial capacity of 400 MWh and output of 100 MW, the Dalian Flow Battery Energy St… Continue reading World’s largest flow battery connected to the grid in China
Illinois Tech spinoff Influit Energy says it’s coming out of stealth mode to commercialize a rechargeable electrofuel – a non-flammable, fast-refuelling liquid flow battery that already carries 23% more energy than lithium batteries, at half the cost.C… Continue reading Influit moves to commercialize its ultra-high density liquid batteries
As useful and impressive as current battery technology is, versions that store renewable energy for grid-scale use may look vastly different to those inside today’s phones and electric vehicles. One promising technology is flow, or redox flow, batterie… Continue reading Symmetrical flow battery may strike right balance for grid-scale storage
Devices known as flow batteries attract a lot of attention from scientists looking for affordable solutions for grid-scale energy storage, but are they affordable enough? A team at MIT believes there is room for improvement on this front, and has devel… Continue reading Ice-cream-like electrode may unlock cheap storage for renewable energy
Redox flow batteries hold great promise when it comes to grid-scale storage of renewable energy, because they can hold vast amounts of it in huge tanks at relatively low cost. Regulating the flow of energy in between these reservoirs sits a membrane, a… Continue reading Hybrid membrane edges flow batteries toward grid-scale energy storage