Energy Storage
Growing Demand for Energy Storage
Energy storage is a crucial tool for enabling the effective integration of renewable energy and unlocking the benefits of local generation of a clean, resilient energy supply.
Energy Storage Deployments
Goldman Sachs, The Great Battery Race“The stationary energy storage opportunity is massive… and virtually untapped”
The Flow Battery Solution
A flow battery is an electrical storage device that is a cross between a conventional battery and a fuel cell. Liquid electrolyte of metallic salts is pumped through a core that consists of a positive and negative electrode, which is separated by a membrane. The ion exchange that occurs between the cathode and anode generates electricity.
One of the main advantages of flow batteries is that energy is stored as a liquid in separate tanks,
unlike Li-ion batteries that store energy in the electrodes. The decoupling of energy and power
enables high application versatility and flexible system design according to consumer needs.
How does a redox flow battery work?
Bill Gates, Energy Innovation, November 2015“Flow batteries are very useful for large industry and could last for decades and the rechargeable electrolyte liquid could last indefinitely (unlike lithium- ion batteries)”
Bromine Based Flow Batteries
Br-based flow batteries provide a low cost, long life and long duration energy storage solution.
Cycle Life
Bromine – based flow batteries have no loss of storage capacity over their lifetime
A Wide Range of Energy Storage Applications
Microgrids
Uninterruptible power supply (UPS)
Wind and Solar
Off grid power supply
Peak Shaving
Load Leveling
Working with bromine
Working with Bromine presents a number of challenges. All the challenges including safety, reactivity and corrosiceness, can be controlled by adding a bromine complexing agent (BCA) to the electrolyte blend.
The solution has been evaluated by DNV laboratories as achieving better and safer design, making this battery a chosen, risk-free energy storage alternative that is safe enough to use in consumer homes and densely populated areas.