Featured in The Long Game – 02-2023

Vanadium’s role in a just transition

The deployment of a vanadium flow battery at a fire station run by Native Americans illustrates the role that the energy storage technology can play in ensuring that nobody is disadvantaged by the shift away from fossil fuels, as Invinity’s Matt Harper explains.

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pv magazine

08 Feb 2023

This vanadium flow battery, at a fire station run by the Soboba tribe of Luiseño Native Americans in California, will store electricity for the evening and night, while providing backup power during outages. | Photo: Invinity

Global development has always relied on exploiting natural resources. Coal, oil, and gas not only fueled hundreds of years of industry but formed many of the building blocks of modern society. During the past year, however, the world has once again been reminded of the inherent geopolitical and economic instability in an energy system based …

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