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Why is this news? It's a 5MWh vanadium flow battery. Another country put online a 800MWh vanadium flow battery (160x larger) this year [1]. > Not only will thi
by pphysch 5y ago
Why is this news? It's a 5MWh vanadium flow battery. Another country put online a 800MWh vanadium flow battery (160x larger) this year [1].
> Not only will this be the largest directly-transmission-connected battery installed in the UK to date, it will be the largest vanadium flow + lithium-ion hybrid battery ever deployed.
This is like boasting you have the world first, largest ever potato+nuclear reactor energy source by throwing a potato in an existing nuclear reactor. Good PR for securing the next contract from dimwitted bureaucrats, I guess, but hardly a genuine exposition of cutting-edge technological development.
[1] - https://www.power-technology.com/marketdata/dalian-uet-rongke-power-battery-energy-storage-system-china/ https://www.power-technology.com/marketdata/dalian-uet-rongk...
- gandalfian 5y ago"Why is this news? Another country put online a 800MWh vanadium flow battery" Did they actually finish building it and get it working and achieve a reasonable cost? Or is it just a big announcement and PR release so far? But yes if they do manage it that is amazing. Otherwise just peacocking.
- pphysch 5y agoYes, the project started 5 years ago IIRC and completed this year.
- jacquesm 5y agoIt was scheduled to complete this year (in fact, it was originally scheduled to be completed in 2019, then 2020, and then it was supposed to be 2021), but it has as far as I know not been completed yet and has not been taken into general service. Proof to the contrary would be gladly accepted, if they get it to completion and it functions as advertised it will instantly be the largest of its kind in the world.
- jacquesm 5y agoFrom what I know about it it got delayed twice by more than a year and isn't operational.