Adam Duckett explores the history and the future of Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries (VRFB) by speaking to our trusted partner Maria Skyllas-Kazacos, an Australian chemical engineer and emeritus professor at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) who pioneered the development of the VRFB, which is the most established system in use today.
Duckett accurately points out that “despite its advantages, the flow battery has been relatively slow to find commercial application, though the pace is now picking up”, and we are proud to be part of that change.
Last year, we committed to build a factory for vanadium batteries in Eastern Australia and install a 4 MW / 16 MWh system to showcase the technology and to bring us one step closer to achieve our objective of balancing the increasing variability that renewable sources entails.