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New Iron Flow Battery Company Makes Big Claims About Cost. Will It Prove Itself?

on April 6, 2016

greentech media Electric Fuel Energy and its parent company are making some bold claims about a new flow battery. If they can live up to those claims, other flow battery companies may have some stiff competition.

Flow batteries provide long-duration electrochemical storage with the promise of 10-hour-plus discharge times.

“Flow batteries are particularly suited for applications that require long-discharge durations, such as load-shifting. The majority of flow battery deployments in the U.S. thus far have been utility-scale systems,” explained Brett Simon, a storage analyst with GTM Research.

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Where micro-grids, emerging markets and flow batteries intersect

on March 15, 2016

Much of the discussion regarding renewables and energy storage takes place from the perspective of advanced economies that have strong, well developed, and highly reliable grid infrastructure providing power as needed.

What is missed often in these discussions is that while energy storage has an increasingly important role to play in the “strong grid” regions, it has a highly critical, almost essential, role to play in vast regions of the world that are more typically associated with high cost energy, such as islands, weak and/or intermittent grids (which exist on at least three continents), or even no grid at all, which applies to approximately 20% of the global population that is believed to have no access to electric power. From an energy sector perspective, these regions are often referred to as emerging markets.

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Duke Energy to put Aquion batteries to the test in North Carolina

on March 10, 2016

CHARLOTTE, N.C., March 10, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Duke Energy has started testing a first-of-its-kind battery technology at its Rankin Substation in Gaston County, N.C.

The hybrid ultracapacitor-battery energy storage system (HESS) will demonstrate multiple service applications: extended operational life, rapid response, real-time solar smoothing and load shifting.

“This approach will allow our energy storage systems to do a variety of tasks,” said Thomas Golden, technology development manager for Duke Energy. “With so many solar installations in North Carolina, we must look for innovative ways to better incorporate renewable energy into our system – and still provide reliable service at a competitive price for our customers.”

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New Iron Flow Battery Company Makes Big Claims About Cost. Will It Prove Itself?

Where micro-grids, emerging markets and flow batteries intersect

Duke Energy to put Aquion batteries to the test in North Carolina

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