Empower Energies, Redflow In Tie-up for Solar and also Flow Battery Solutions in North America

Sep 16, 2022 11:24 AM ET
  • They will certainly establish integrated solar and flow battery solutions largely for the North American commercial and also industrial.
  • The risk-free zinc bromine chemistry in their option has no risk of thermal runaway, making the service much better to release in city and country atmospheres where safety and security is a paramount factor to consider.

United States based renewable resource player Empower Energies as well as Australian firm Redflow have actually signed a 'Letter of Intent' to establish incorporated solar as well as flow battery remedies for the North American commercial as well as industrial (C&I), remote community micro grid, and also utility markets.

The official statement of Empower Energies held that the incorporated solar and also Redflow energy storage service design was developed through the business' joint interaction with a Lot of money 100 company. This company has an interest in deploying solar and flow battery storage projects at a few of its commercial campuses.

Michael Belko, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, Empower Energies, stated, "Our new offering could be of wonderful passion to clients seeking robust Energy Storage Solutions (ESS), yet that call for a choice to lithium-ion."

Patrick Corr, CSO, Empower Energies, specified, "We've located that our incorporated solar and also flow battery solution is of specific interest to particular C&I customers seeking a different ESS remedy for load changing, peak shaving or secondary solutions on their business campuses to minimize energy costs as well as fulfill their ESG goals."

Mark Higgins, Redflow's President of North America and CCO, suggests that this co-developed option will certainly offer a new, safer alternative to traditional solutions. He calls the incorporated remedy a unique, cutting-edge, as well as stress-tested alternative to the status quo solar and lithium-ion service.

Higgins informed, "Our incorporated offering gives a more secure, sturdy, extra sustainable as well as expense affordable alternative to lithium-ion batteries + solar, and also our batteries don't materially degrade over their beneficial life, unlike lithium ion."

According to the official declaration, the zinc bromine chemistry has no danger of thermal runaway, making the option better to release in urban and rural atmospheres where security is a paramount consideration. Also, the hibernation mode allows the batteries to be utilized for backup power and also resilience releases in an extremely cost-effective manner versus lithium.

They claimed that the agreement is non-binding and also non-exclusive. Strategies are underway to perform webinars as well as give academic materials about the incorporated service in the coming months.

A Peek Into Profiles

Empower Energies has built over 200 MW of clean energy projects in the US and also it has over 800 MW of solar as well as storage projects currently in advancement. Their management team stand for a mixed 1.7 GW in clean project experience.

Australia based Redflow Limited makes zinc-bromine flow batteries known to endure daily hard work in extreme problems. Redflow states its batteries are created for high cycle-rate, lengthy time-base stationary energy storage applications and also are scalable from little systems through to grid-scale implementations.


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