RE: Vanadium price rises 5/1/236 Jan 2023 16:54
Harchris - the largest Lithium-ion gigafactories have capacities of 20-25 GWh - so, yes, a couple of tens.
Typically one of these costs 3-5 Billion USD to build - so if you can get a VRFB plant that is, say 1/50th the size (400MWh) for only 1/200th the cost (20 Million USD) then you're already a factor of 4 up at a much, much lower scale. Economies of scale will kick in once you start building bigger so you may end up with VRFB production plants that cost only 1/10th or 1/20th the Capex of a similarly sized Lithium-ion factory, plus the difficulty of raising all that finance and scaling the industry is much reduced.