RE: One day up, next day down..12 Jun 2019 18:29
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The Flow batteries are on the site is actually around 50 yards from a grid connection, but Sandbar president Scott Luskey and team opted for the 24/7 solar-plus-storage option.
Flow battery maker Avalon has initiated a novel business model aimed at lowering the cost of deployment of its energy storage units, effectively ‘renting’ the electrolytes in the devices to a customer in California.
The new headquarters of Sandbar Solar, a solar installation company based in Northern California, runs off a microgrid system that has an Avalon Battery vanadium flow battery energy storage system at its heart.
Integrated by microgrid controls solution provider Ageto Energy, the flow battery is designed to allow the grid-independent facilities to run on solar 24/7, which a lithium-ion battery solution would not be capable of providing.
Then the story gets VERY interesting indeed!
‘…Avalon is also currently the supplier of flow batteries for NEXTracker’s integrated NX Flow solar-plus-storage systems.’
https://www.energy-storage.news/news/flow-batteries-on-a-budget-avalon-renting-electrolytes-as-a-service1
21 Jun 2017
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