Kirk Smith, PhDJun 16
Anyone have any questions for the flow battery industry players? At the world's biggest flow battery event at the moment! Vanadium, iron, organic systems, system integrators, electrode/membrane/pump manufacturers... #EnergyStorage #batteries #GridStorage #FlowBatteries #Energy
Show threadSzymon BęczkowskiJun 16

@kirk Are commercial systems being deployed? At what scale and for whom? What future applications will be enabled by the progress in flow batteries?

I am really interested from the power electronics side of the field, i.e. if I ask for a grant that includes a flow battery with some power electronics component who will be my consumer?

Show threadKirk Smith, PhD
@owiecc stream of consciousness reply: haven't seen anyone here interested in residential scale systems, major VRFB company Infinity is doing 4 MWh and above, many companies doing larger, customers are large businesses, public institutions, utilities, increasingly datacenters
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Show threadSzymon BęczkowskiJun 16

@kirk Sad there is no residential units but I guess maintenance is not easy so bigger units are preferable.

Is anyone interested in e.g. ferries? Would simplify charging a lot. Marine people understand fluids and can easily crane a container with charged electrolyte on board. If you see anyone who'd be interested in making a pilot please forwards my contact to them 🙏. We have experience in grid side infrastructure and we have marine partners.

Show threadKirk Smith, PhDJun 17

@owiecc KemiWatt in France I heard may have a marine project? They aren't here though. I will send projects your way if I hear of any though! Though at that scale it's mostly companies doing things in-house as I can see.

And from a CEO, I was told "why sell 10,000 small units in a highly regulated environment when I can sell 1 large battery to a utility and be done for the year"