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Sumitomo Electric makes long-duration flow battery sale for energy trading in Japan
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Sumitomo Electric will supply an 8-hour duration vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) to a recently-established municipal power company in Niigata, Japan.
Japanese engineering, materials and professional services group Sumitomo Electric said this morning that it has received an order for a 1MW/8MWh VRFB energy storage system from Kashiwazaki Ideal & Realistic Energy (Kashiwazaki IR).
The long-duration energy storage (LDES) system will be installed at the site of a public sewage treatment plant in Kashiwazaki City in Niigata Prefecture. The city is located on the northern Japan sea coastal side of Honshu, about a four hour drive from Tokyo.
The city, a traditional home to petroleum refining and nuclear power industries, is pursuing a decarbonisation agenda focused on renewable energy and nuclear, to which it is seeking to add energy storage resources.
The flow battery installation will help integrate variable renewable energy (VRE) generation onto the grid while helping stabilise operation of the network. At the same time, it will promote municipal goals of increasing Kashiwazaki’s local energy self-sufficiency and supporting industrial growth.
The project is scheduled to enter commercial operation in March 2024.