RE:news China’s largest solar-plus-flow battery project will be accompanied by VRFB ‘gigafactory’
March 16, 2021
Canada-headquartered vertically-integrated technology provider VRB Energy said that the solar PV power station will be integrated with a 100MW / 500MWh (five-hour duration) battery that the company is developing in Xiangyang, in China’s Hubei Province.
Vanadium electrolyte tanks at VRB Energy’s 3MW / 12MWh demonstration project in Hubei, which went online in early 2019. Image: VRB Energy.
Large-scale Vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) technology looks set to be deployed at a 100MW solar energy power plant in China, two years after a smaller-scale demonstration project was commissioned in the region.
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The largest project so far announced as under development through the Chinese strategic programme is a 200MW / 800MWh system by Rongke Power in Dalian Province. The first phase of 100MW / 400MWh was originally scheduled for completion during 2020, but this is yet to be announced. Interestingly, the duration of storage at four hours for that one is a full hour less than VRB Energy’s Xiangyang project.
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