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Canada’s Largest Solar-Powered Vanadium Flow Battery to be Installed in Alberta
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Utility-scale solar + storage project gets green light in Canadian first
Elemental Energy and Invinity Energy Systems have announced one of Canada’s most innovative and ambitious renewable energy projects, in which approximately 40,000 solar panels will be installed alongside a 8.4 MWh Vanadium Flow Battery (VFB) at a site in Alberta, Canada.
Located in one of the sunniest places in Canada and in a province historically known as one of the world’s major centres for oil production, a 21 MWp solar array will be colocated with Invinity’s utility-scale VFB technology to generate enough low-cost, low-carbon electricity to serve the electricity needs of over 7,000 Albertans.
In a Canadian first, the solar array will be coupled directly with the VFB, improving plant efficiency, operating flexibility and costs. Compared with more common lithium-ion batteries, Invinity’s VFBs are a safer form of longer-duration, utility-grade energy storage, offering excellent operational longevity in ultra heavy duty use while being fully recyclable at end of life.
Developed and manufactured by Vancouver-based Invinity, the VFB will charge from the solar array to provide clean power to the local grid at any time of the day or night. This ability to deliver power on demand will help accelerate reduction in carbon emissions and alleviate constraints within Alberta’s electric grid, eliminating bottlenecks to power flow that can be a barrier to installing additional renewable energy generation across the province.