Adrian Hargrave, CEO of SEEEN, explains how the new funds will accelerate customer growth Watch the video here.
Test test test.
BBC News - 'New variant' of coronavirus identified - Han****
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55308211
BBC News - 'Test and dine' proposed to support Birmingham restaurants
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-55280142
Thanks Lionel. It's great to know it's worthwhile.
Always happy to do my bit for the team and we have a great one here.
Onwards and upwards for 2021. 30p (50p, £1) party here we come ;)
Have a good weekend all.
Long article;
https://massivesci.com/articles/wastewater-poop-sweden-epidemiology-pandemic-diseases/
It’s time to track city sewage for emerging diseases, not just COVID-19
The current pandemic accelerated the wastewater epidemiology techniques, but researchers hope to continue the practice to prevent the next one...
Yadlamalka Energy is committed to developing renewable technology solutions to enable a sustainable energy future. This project will provide vital support for the electricity grid in South Australia, which relies heavily on intermittent renewable energy sources, leaving it vulnerable to unexpected changes in sunshine and wind. ARENA’s contribution is critical to allowing our project to proceed and we look forward to working with them,” he said.
Larry Zulch, Chief Executive Officer of Invinity said Australia was playing an important leadership role when it came to emerging energy technologies.
“Time and again, Australia has shown leadership in the adoption of game-changing energy technologies, and Yadlamalka Energy’s and ARENA’s joint vision for this project is right in line with that impressive history. Vanadium flow batteries are increasingly recognised as a robust, reliable and proven way of making renewable energy truly dispatchable at grid scale. We look forward to working with Yadlamalka Energy and ARENA on this latest example of Australian energy leadership
https://www.miragenews.com/first-grid-scale-flow-battery-to-be-built-in-south-australia/
Australia’s first ever utility-scale vanadium flow battery is set to be installed in regional South Australia, aiming to demonstrate the potential impact that flow batteries could provide in reaching the energy storage target in the Australian Government’s first Low Emissions Technology Statement.
On behalf of the Australian Government, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has today announced $5.7 million in funding to Yadlamalka Energy Pty Ltd (Yadlamalka Energy) to support the installation of a utility-scale vanadium flow battery at Neuroodla, near Hawker in South Australia.
The $20.3 million project will co-locate a 2 MW / 8 MWh vanadium flow battery with a 6 MW solar PV array. It will connect to the National Electricity Market (NEM) to demonstrate the potential for grid-connected vanadium flow batteries to provide energy and frequency control ancillary services (FCAS). The battery for Yadlamalka Energy will be supplied by Invinity Energy Systems.
The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) and the Australian Government’s first Low Emissions Technology Statement identified an emerging requirement for medium-duration storage, with vanadium flow battery technology seen as a potentially scalable and flexible solution.
Vanadium flow batteries are a form of heavy-duty stationary energy storage, designed for use in high-utilisation applications such as being coupled with industrial scale solar PV generation for distributed, low-emissions energy projects. Vanadium flow batteries store energy in a non-flammable, liquid electrolyte and do not degrade with cycling like lithium-ion batteries. They can be scaled and located with greater flexibility than pumped hydro energy storage, which may increase the potential applications for this technology.
ARENA CEO Darren Miller said flow batteries were an exciting technology to address the emerging energy storage requirement.
“The strong uptake of variable renewable energy like solar PV and wind has highlighted the need for increased energy storage and vanadium flow batteries could play a major role in addressing this need, complementing the role of more established technologies such as pumped hydro energy storage and lithium ion batteries in the Australian market.
“We look forward to working with Yadlamalka Energy on this exciting project to demonstrate the benefits of flow batteries connected to the grid, particularly the ability to shift the dispatch of renewable energy into the evening when consumer demand is highest.”
Andrew Doman, Chairman and founder or Yadlamalka Energy, thanked ARENA for its support for this important development in South Australia.
https://www.altenergymag.com/news/2020/12/10/7gw-of-battery-storage-projects-in-the-pipeline-across-australia/34258/
Projections from Cornwall Insight Australia show there is ~7GW of battery storage projects proposed or currently in the planning process. Of that 7GW there is just over 900MW of committed or significantly progressed storage projects set to be delivered by 2024.
Key findings
• ~7GW of battery storage projects either proposed or in planning.
• 900MW of committed and significantly progressed to be delivered by 2024.
• The average capacity of the proposed battery storage projects is ~150MW.
• The state with the largest MW of proposed projects is Victoria (VIC) with more than 4GW - more than 40% of recent peak demand.
• New South Wales (NSW) currently has 1.3GW - only 9% of recent peak demand but well on the way to the 2.3GW of storage identified in the NSW Roadmap.
Ben Cerini Principal Consultant at Cornwall Insight Australia, said:
"Our projections show that there is currently a strong pipeline for energy storage across the NEM, despite the challenging economics and the continually developing value streams, which can be volatile. But as we have seen, those that move quickly will be rewarded and be in the best possible position to take advantage of new revenue streams when (not if) they arrive.
"The question then becomes, given the size of the storage pipeline and the recent commitment to deliver the largest battery in Australia of 300MW. Do we already need to re-evaluate the amount of storage projected to be built in the NEM?
"Even if we only assume that 10% of the projected storage of will make it to completed projects. That is still a total of ~1.5GW of battery storage that we can expect by 2024 - more than 13x AEMO's forecast in the Integrated System Plan.
"To be fair, the battery storage forecast by AEMO takes into consideration the reliability of the grid (i.e. the reduction of unserved energy). Therefore, it doesn't consider the ability of system services contracts to be able to underpin investment in battery storage that allows batteries to then compete in energy and ancillary service markets.
"More battery storage will deliver more system and ancillary services while also assisting during peak demand. Underestimating the role of storage may have significant implications for future projects."
As we know. It's coming...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-09/csiro-sewage-covid-19-australian-study-wastewater/12967618
https://www.solarserver.de/2020/12/09/betrieb-setzt-fuer-pv-auf-vanadium-redox-flow-batterie/
https://www.thearmchairtrader.com/bushveld-minerals-share-price-2/
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/12/07/ramping-up-renewables-now-could-save-europe-e363bn-by-2050/
https://capital10x.com/green-metals-in-focus-vanadium/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
http://news.sciencenet.cn/htmlnews/2020/12/449755.shtm
Recently, Li Xianfeng and Zhang Huamin, researchers at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, led the scientific research team to adopt a new generation of weldable vanadium flow battery (VFB) technology integrated 8kW/80kWh and 15kW/80kWh energy storage demonstration systems. Shanyang County, Shangluo City, Shaanxi Province was successfully put into operation. The system is composed of electrolyte circulation system, battery system module, power control module and remote control system. The system design rated output power is 8kW and 15kW respectively, and the rated capacity is 80kWh. In addition, the battery system is also matched with solar photovoltaic installations as a backup power supply for important loads in the project site computer room to ensure the reliability of the power supply of the loads. After on-site testing, the battery system meets customer requirements and runs stably.
The stack of the energy storage demonstration system in this operation uses the weldable porous ion conductive membrane, weldable bipolar plate, and integrated weldable stack independently developed by the team. The new generation of technology has broken the traditional stack assembly mode, greatly improving the reliability and assembly automation of the stack. Compared with the traditional stack, the total cost of the new generation stack is reduced by 40%, thereby improving the stability and economy of the entire battery system.
The successful operation of the application demonstration project has laid a solid foundation for the engineering and industrial development of the new generation of vanadium redox flow battery technology.
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