VRFB News Construction starts on Bushveld microgrid in South Africa using CellCube flow battery
Primary vanadium producer Bushveld Minerals has announced the start of construction at a flow battery-enabled microgrid at one of its mines in South Africa.
The company announced the start of construction of the 3.5MW solar PV, 1MW/4MWh vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) microgrid on Twitter yesterday (17 October).
Austria-based VRFB company CellCube, in which Bushveld owns a 25% stake, is providing the battery system. On its website, CellCube says the VRFB will shift the solar power to alternative times of the day and provide arbitrage services, and will use vanadium provided by Bushveld.
The project has taken a while to get off the ground. European infrastructure solutions company Abengoa was selected as engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) partner back in 2020 but was replaced by CellCube the following year after Bushveld’s investment.
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