“Obviously the scale is significant. We’re going to be able to deliver a vanadium flow battery for one of the largest battery installations in the world, that’s really remarkable,” Harper said.
“And if you look at the vanadium flow batteries that are being installed in China, they’re being installed because of a policy trying to focus on the security of supply. Lithium batteries could do the job that those vanadium flow batteries in China are being deployed against.”
“Lithium batteries cannot do the job that is needed in Laufenburg. And so, and so in terms of carving out a niche for flow batteries where they are definitively the right technology for the job, this is going to be a world first at this scale.”
Why a flow battery
Considering that the planned system is short-duration, the choice of flow battery technology for it is an interesting one. We asked Harper why Flexbase opted for it rather than lithium-ion.
