Flow batteries, iron-air, compressed air, gravity, thermal and emerging LDES technologies
Wien Energie has commissioned an 80 kW / 230 kWh vanadium redox flow battery at its Donaustadt power plant — Austria's largest operating system of its type and the utility's first water-based electrolyte battery.
NTU Singapore and spin-off VFT have started a four-year, SGD 15 million research programme on vanadium flow batteries covering stacks, AI monitoring and vanadium recycling.
New work from Yongtai Energy, Zhonghe Energy and Chinese researchers targets vanadium electrolyte cost, membrane efficiency and zinc-bromine corrosion, pointing to lower-cost and more durable flow battery systems.
A KAIST team replaced chemical reduction with a catalytic route at an average vanadium oxidation state near +4.1, cutting V3.5+ electrolyte production time by 67% and eliminating residual oxalic acid, with a Pt/C catalyst reused more than 2,500 times.
A Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics and Wuhan University team has reformulated tin flow battery chemistry to reach 89% round-trip efficiency, up from 53%, and validated it in a 20-cell, 800 W prototype.
Singapore's Nanyang Technological University and VFT have opened a four-year, S$15 million joint laboratory focused on making vanadium redox flow batteries safer, longer-lasting and cheaper.
NTU Singapore and its spin-off VFT have opened a S$15 million joint research laboratory focused on vanadium redox flow batteries, targeting safer, longer-lasting and cheaper storage for renewable electricity.
Nanyang Technological University and Singapore's VFT have opened a S$15 million joint laboratory to develop safer, longer-lasting and cheaper vanadium redox flow batteries for future power grids.
Singapore's NTU and flow-battery developer VFT have opened a S$15 million, four-year joint research laboratory to make vanadium redox flow batteries safer, longer-lasting and cheaper for grid-scale storage.
A 100 MW/400 MWh compressed air plus flywheel project in Fushun has passed preliminary design review, while salt-cavern CAES designs in China now target efficiencies above 70% at 300 MW scale.
NTU Singapore and spin-off firm VFT have launched a S$15 million joint laboratory to make vanadium redox flow batteries cheaper, safer and longer-lasting for grid-scale storage.
The MIT Energy Initiative has named long-duration energy storage one of three focus areas for its Future Energy Systems Center, led by research scientist Ruaridh Macdonald, with an agenda spanning degradation, electrode design and the value storage delivers to grids.