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Vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) developer Enerox, better known by its CellCube brand, has set up a subsidiary in Colorado, US, to bring its product to the North American market.
It established CellCube Inc. in Denver on 4 May in response to what it calls the “…exploding market demand in North America for long-duration energy storage”.
Alexander Schoenfeldt, CEO of CellCube Austria and USA commented: "Being a global leader in this space we are very enthusiastic about our new presence in North America, as it will allow us to build and use local supply chain and engage with our business and R&D partners in the US more easily. As a result, we will offer the best in class product in North America in a very sustainable and innovative way."
The company manufacturers modular VRFB battery energy storage systems (BESS), with its three pre-configured systems offering four, six and eight-hour duration in 250kW stages. Its system can also be configured to provide a duration of up to 24 hours. It says a typical number of cycles over its battery’s lifetime at 100% discharge is 20,000. See a datasheet here.
Though it has not announced any orders in the North America market yet, it has taken steps to shore up the supply chain. In February, it quintupled an electrolyte supply deal with Arkansas-based US Vanadium. Two months earlier, it followed peer Invinity Energy System in striking a deal with Munich Re to offer 20 year performance guarantees backed by the insurer.
The US Department of Defense Defense Innovation Unit will try out ''prototype advanced energy systems'' based around long-duration energy storage (LDES) technologies.
With the aim of creating resilient and decentralised energy systems for field installations and logistics applications, the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) will deploy two types of flow battery technology and mobile power systems.
Called Extended Duration for Storage Installations (EDSI), the ability of a vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) system from Austrian company CellCube, a zinc-bromine flow battery from Australian company Redflow and mobile power solutions from US company DD Dannar will be installed in field trials through the project.
Each technology will face strict criteria on which they will be assessed, the Department of Defense (DoD) said on Tuesday (3 October). They must provide at least 50kW of power, and no more than 1MW, for durations of eight consecutive hours (400kWh to 1,000kWh).
In addition to providing the essential backup power that will help military installations and operations to ride through causes of disruptions to power supply such as extreme weather events, the technologies could enable the military services to increase their consumption of renewable energy and better manage their energy use overall.
"Through EDSI, not only does the DoD get the advantage of energy resiliency during adverse weather conditions, but now we are able to store energy during non-peak times and also tie into renewable sources, optimising best utilisation and economic practices," Air Force Lt Colonel Ben Thomas said.
Project sizes and capacities were not provided in a release, but the Department of Defense said both the CellCube and Redflow systems will be at "megawatt-scale".
Redflow''s zinc-bromine flow battery and control system will be installed at a US Air Force site, where they will be integrated with microgrid software and a range of other energy technologies and resources. That includes a solar PV array, which the flow battery system will be able to make dispatchable and use to provide peak shaving of the facility''s draw of power from the grid.
CellCube''s VRFB technology and accompanying battery management system (BMS) will be connected to energy systems at base facilities of the US Navy and Marine Corps.
It''s another step forward in the recognition of the importance of long-duration energy storage (LDES), which has a very broad definition but tends to be considered as any technology suited for applications requiring 8-hour duration of discharge.
Last month, the US Department of Energy granted conditional funding worth US$325 million for a range of technologies offering promise, following on from the government''s stated mission to enable much lower cost of energy storage for longer durations. Redflow was among the selected recipients of that funding.
Yesterday, Energy-Storage.news ran a story on the thoughts of engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) firms active in energy storage towards assessing non-lithium energy storage technologies.
Dr Helen Fischer of Kiewit and Ben Echeverria of Burns & McDonnell both said that round-trip efficiency (RTE) is the most important factor in assessing the technical and performance capabilities of energy storage technologies.
However, if other factors come into play, such as the DoD''s need for resiliency and backup power, or increased urgency to reduce dependency on fossil fuels, RTE could become less important than the ability to scale or overall cost of ownership.
Three companies — CellCube, Dannar and Redflow — have secured contracts from the Defense Innovation Unit to install and test long-duration energy storage system prototypes at U.S. military installations.
The contracts were awarded under the Extended Duration for Storage Installations project to build resilient backup power systems designed to increase minimum power threshold and uptime for Department of Defense installations and operational energy platforms, DIU said Tuesday.
CellCube is slated to deliver its megawatt-scale vanadium redox flow battery technology to connect and balance base energy systems for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.
Dannar will install four models of distribution-class mobile power systems at two U.S. Air Force installations to support energy needs for electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle operations.
The Air Force plans to trial Redflow’s megawatt-scale zinc-bromine flow battery and control system at a site where extended storage hardware will link with microgrid software to enable multiple onsite systems integration.
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Enerox GmbH and G&W Electric have signed a strategic partnership to offer resilience and cost savings to the rapidly expanding microgrid market in North America
Wiener Neudorf, Austria, Bolingbrook, Illinois, July 14, 2022 – Enerox GmbH, better known as ''CellCube'', and G&W Electric, a US headquartered power grid solutions provider, have signed a partnership agreement to offer a new and integrated microgrid solution to the US-market. G&W Electric adds CellCube''s Vanadium Redox Flow Battery (VRFBs) as a key technology to their microgrid solution portfolio and becomes a ''Value Added Reseller'' for CellCube''s energy storage systems.
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