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Please correct if I have got this wrong - BMN have 84% of Bushveld Energy, Bushveld Energy have 25.25% of Enerox Holdings means that BMN have 21.21% of Enerox Holdings

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/neighborhood/woodlands/article/Woodlands-fire-chief-says-Tesla-fire-example-of-16113029.php

Palmer Buck, fire chief for The Woodlands Township Fire Department, said the Tesla fire was an example of how “we need to keep up with technology” in regard to both rescuing people possibly trapped in the new electric vehicles or merely putting out possible fires from the vehicle’s intensive battery package.

Buck also said contrary to some reports in the media, the Tesla involved in the April 17 fire did not burn out of control for four hours.

He also said no one from the township’s fire department called Tesla asking for help with the blaze, noting that he is not aware of the company having such a service.

“With respect to the fire fight, unfortunately, those rumors grew out way of control. It did not take us four hours to put out the blaze. Our guys got there and put down the fire within two to three minutes, enough to see the vehicle had occupants,” Buck said of inaccurate claims the vehicle burned for hours. “After that, it was simply cooling the car as the batteries continued to have a chain reaction due to damage.”

Buck said what is termed in the firefighting profession as “final extinguishment” of the vehicle — a 2019 Tesla — took several hours, but that classification does not mean the vehicle was out-of-control or had live flames. The term is mostly used in relation to structure or wild land forest fires where hot ash that seems extinguished or is buried can later reignite other material and begin burning again.

“We could not tear it apart or move it around to get ‘final extinguishment’ because the fact that we had two bodies in there and it was then an investigation-slash-crime scene,” Buck explained. “We had to keep it cool, were on scene for four hours, but we were simply pouring a little bit of water on it. It was not because flames were coming out. It was a reaction in the battery pan. It was not an active fire.”

https://energysuperhuboxford.org/building-hybrid-battery/

Would have been nice to see a piccy of an Invinity box on site.

Original link has disappeared behind paywall so -

https://veccogroup.com.au/vecco-group-to-build-australias-first-vanadium-battery-manufacturing-facility/

https://www.afr.com/street-talk/chinese-giant-backs-qld-battery-play-vecco-next-stop-ipo-20210415-p57jjx

https://www.bayfor.org/en/press/press-releases/detail-en/3696-the-best-of-two-systems-new-eu-project-hyflow-to-develop-a-smart-hybrid-energy-storage-system.html

I would have thought a more significant impact would imply more productivity ie. a bullish signal.

Surely if 5 days closure had no impact that would imply very low productivity?

The batteries look like small bricks so not flow.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/14/vanadium-ion-battery-startup-standard-energy-raises-8-9m-series-c-from-softbank-ventures-asia/

https://stndenergy.com/battery/#contents

EdSelby: I think EW19-5312 is definitely IES - but not up to date.
https://www.serdp-estcp.org/Program-Areas/Installation-Energy-and-Water/Energy/Microgrids-and-Storage/EW19-5312
I must admit that I am making the assumption that EW19- 5368, by virtue of the numbering, is an update of the same trial.

https://www.serdp-estcp.org/Program-Areas/Installation-Energy-and-Water/Energy/Microgrids-and-Storage/Hardware-in-the-Loop-Testing-of-Vanadium-Redox-Flow-Batteries-for-Microgrid-Applications/EW19-5368#factsheet-36958-benefit

The Ameresco update does not read like good news to me!

Particularly this paragraph -

"However, Phase 1 work showed that the expected round trip efficiency and auxiliary power requirements of the VRF system have significant flaws that impair grid tied operation. Verification of these assumptions through lab testing is a major goal of this phase of work."

https://www.ajudaily.com/view/20210407181937861

I was not aware BMN had bought out the IES share of VERL (30% I think?)

https://twitter.com/alanstrangesky?lang=en

Project Dragon Power

British energy storage infrastructure experts, redT, in partnership with VIPTAM Institute of Technology Application, will deploy an innovative, first of a kind,
solar + vanadium redox flow machine distributed energy solution across a number of farming communities in rural Vietnam. These new distributed energy
solutions will enable farmers to install and operate 24-hour lighting systems, allowing them to increase fruit yields from 1 to 3 harvests per year.
With funding support from Innovate UK, this project will address the 'Energy Trilemma' faced by rural communities, providing them with access to affordable,
low-carbon, accessible and reliable energy infrastructure. This will drive positive socio-economic change within the community and demonstrate the viability
of renewable, decentralised energy systems for rural electrification, as an alternative to diesel generators or fossil-fuel-backed national grid networks.
Focusing initially on dragon fruit farms, redT will provide a full energy storage and PV solution to farmers with the help of VIPTAM. This infrastructure will be
purchased by the farming communities with the help of commercial agricultural loans, provided by Agribank.
Increased farming productivity will drive prosperity, improve welfare and support gender equality in these communities through the creation of, on average,
60 new jobs for men and women. The energy system will also promote social inclusion by providing a free and universally accessible community point of
connection to the network and the provision of numerous new opportunities for personal and professional development for members of the local community.

Competition Code: 1906_DFID_CRD_CGI_ENCAT_R7_LATE

https://menafn.com/1101842240/CellCube-Announces-Change-of-Management

Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - March 31, 2021) - CellCube Energy Storage Systems Inc. (CSE: CUBE) (" CellCube " or the " Company "), the Company announces the resignation of Brett Whalen as Chief Executive Officer and Director of the Company, John Dyer as Chief Financial Officer and the resignation of Henrik Mikkelsen and Chris Syme as Directors of the Company. The Board of Directors and management would like to thank Messrs. Whalen, Dyer, Mikkelsen and Syme for their contributions to the Company and wish them every success in their future endeavours. In connection with the foregoing, Ms. Carly Burk has been appointed a director, Chief Executive Officer and a Corporate Secretary of the Company.


Ms. Burk is a Corporate and Securities Law Clerk with Irwin Lowy LLP since February 2018. Ms. Burk holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Southampton, and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from Carleton University. Ms. Burk serves as the Corporate Secretary of Royal Coal Corp.

Ms. Burk will be reviewing the corporate and financial records of the Company with the intention of revoking the cease trade order issued by the securities authorities that affects the securities of the Company. Provided the cease trade order can be remedied management will then seek corporate transactions to enhance shareholder value. The Company has not established a definitive timeline to complete the revocation of the cease trade order and a strategic transaction and there is no assurance that the cease trade order can be revoked or any transaction will be completed as a result of this process. The Company does not expect to make additional public comments regarding these matters until the board determines that additional disclosure is appropriate in accordance with applicable securities laws.

It's interesting that several of Invinity management have links back to one of the companies that co-built the 1st VRFB in S.A.
(VTC, Highveld and ESKOM)

Vyse147, Don't tell me - Pfizer?

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/budget-2021-what-you-need-to-know

"£68 million to fund a UK-wide competition to deliver innovative, ‘first-of-a-kind’ long-duration energy storage prototypes that will reduce the cost of net zero by storing excess low carbon energy over longer periods."

Li-Ion would be excluded on 2 counts - already mainstream and short duration, but VRFB is hardly "first-of-a-kind" or at prototype stage.