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This article is about Sumitomo Electric Industries' planed 60 MWhr Vanadium Redox battery to be installed and tested on Japan's Hokkaido Island.

Note that Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd is division of the Sumitomo Corporation a major partner at the Ambatovy Nickel Mine in Madagascar.

https://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-06/japanese-battery-trial-seeks-to-transform-how-grids-work-energy.html?cmpid=

Research History
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“The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration was developing the vanadium redox flow technology in the 1970s. Sumitomo started research in 1985 and suspended work because the batteries kept charge more briefly than expected.

It resumed in 2008 and this year set up a division to promote the technology, said Mitsuyo Tsuruta, a Sumitomo spokeswoman. It has been conducting pilot projects and wants to commercialize the battery as early as next year.

With a capacity of 60 megawatt-hours, the battery will be installed at Hokkaido Electric (9509)’s Minami Hayakita substation in the town of Abira, according to a joint statement from Sumitomo and the utility. One megawatt is enough to power about 333 homes in Japan.

The trade ministry said there is an increasing need for storage in Europe for wind power, and the system on trial in Hokkaido shows promise.

Murakami, the trade ministry official, said, “that is why Sumitomo is betting on a technology it once gave up.” “