Vanadium battery energy storage usa

What is a vanadium flow battery system?

A vanadium flow battery system is ideally suited to stabilize isolated microgrids, integrating solar and wind power in a safe, reliable, low-maintenance, and environmentally friendly manner. VRB Energy's grid-scale energy storage systems allow for flexible, long-duration energy storage with proven high performance.

What is a vanadium redox flow battery?

Modular and scalable, vanadium redox flow batteries are highly flexible and can be optimized to manage support for the commercial and industrial energy sector, and the grid energy supply sector. Vanadium redox flow batteries can provide energy storage from 4 hours to a few days.

What is storion's vanadium electrolyte?

Storion’s vanadium electrolyte is: Manufactured domestically in the United States. Maintains its capacity over the lifetime of the energy storage deployment, even over a large number of charge/discharge cycles. It is infinitely recyclable when the VRFB is retired.

Why do we need a vanadium supply chain?

For U.S. deployments, it becomes increasingly important to onshore or friend-shore the supply chain to support the anticipated of energy storage required to transition to clean energy. Despite significant deposits, there are no primary producing vanadium mines in North America. However, plans are underway to address this situation.

Does storion offer leased vanadium?

Storion will also have exclusive access to provide “leased” vanadium to the market through Largo Physical Vanadium. With this solution, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Long Duration Storage Shot goal to reduce the levelized cost of storage (LCOS) to $0.05/kWh by the end of the decade can be accomplished today.

How long do vanadium redox batteries last?

VRB® Energy's vanadium redox batteries have a proven life of at least 25 years without degradation in the battery. They can be discharged over an almost unlimited number of charge and discharge cycles without wearing out, making them ideal for utility-scale solar and wind power generation.