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Flow battery breakthrough?

Lithium alternatives: Redox flow technologies have grown quite mature, but despite some big letters of intent, the industry is still waiting for the technology’s major breakthrough. Experts who will present at Energy Storage Europe address the big questions the technology must answer as it flows into the mainstream of energy storage.

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pv magazine

27 Feb 2018

The redox flow laboratory at the Karlsruhe Fraunhofer ICT, where the large electrolyte tanks can test storage systems up to several hundred kilowatts.

It’s pitch-black, although the walls are made of bright white salt, and there are no sounds and no smells. “The caverns here have a height of up to 400 meters and a diameter of up to 80 meters,” says Ralf Riekenberg, project manager at EWE Gasspeicher. The German energy company’s area of operations extends to the North …

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