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Heritage building goes with the flow

Urban infill and the repurposing and renovation of heritage buildings can lead to unexpected challenges, when increased occupancy and new building usage results in higher electricity demand. The developers of a 100 year old building in the Australian city of Adelaide encountered exactly this, enlisting the assistance of locally-developed bromide flow batteries to meet peak demand. Redflow’s Ben Shepherd sets out the case study.

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pv magazine

25 Feb 2019

Image: Williams Burton Leapordi

After Australian architectural firm Williams Burton Leopardi bought the derelict Darling Building in central Adelaide in 2015, it had to overcome many challenges to restore the heritage-listed building, which had been largely neglected since the 1960s. A central problem was that projected peak energy demand for the renovated 1916 building would require more electricity than …

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