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Utility EDP to deploy vanadium flow battery for hybrid storage project at retiring thermal plant in Spain
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Portugal-based utility EDP has received clearance to deploy a 1MWh vanadium flow battery system as part of a hybrid energy storage project at the site of a retiring thermal plant in Asturias, Spain.
EDP Espaa was granted the authorisation to deploy the vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) system at the 1.2GW Soto de Ribera coal and gas plant on January 25, 2023, by the government of Asturias, one of Spain’s autonomous communities.
The system, called REDOX2025, will have a power output of 0.25MW and an energy storage capacity of 1.05MWh meaning a duration of 4.2 hours.
Flow batteries, be it vanadium or anything else, decouple the power and energy components of the system, unlike lithium-ion. The power section will be housed in a single 20-foot shipping container, containing 16 stacks of redox flow batteries, 8 pumps and a set of valves and pipes and a battery management system (BMS).
Eight electrolyte tanks totalling 58m3 of vanadium electrolyte and an electrolyte thermal conditioning system will be housed separately, making up the energy component of the system. EDP hasn’t yet revealed which company will provide the VRFB solution.