Source: Energy & Management Powernews In particular, the Munich-based greentech company Voltstorage wants to address commercial enterprises and agriculture with its battery storage based on vanadium redox flow technology.
The chemical element vanadium occurs in various regions of the world, in iron production, for example, it is produced as a byproduct. In June this year, the storage battery developer "VoltStorage GmbH" presented its battery "VDIUM C50" based on vanadium redox flow technology for the first time at the trade fair "ees Europe" in Munich. Sales via specialist partners are possible with immediate effect, as Voltstorage announced in a July 11 statement.
The stationary solution is particularly suitable, says the 70-employee company, for users who want to optimize their own consumption. The company is thus primarily addressing commercial, industrial and agricultural operations that want to store local electricity from wind, biogas and solar energy.
Its many years of experience from its research and development work, as well as its predecessor solutions in use in the residential sector, have gone into VDIUM C50, the company, which was founded in 2016, said. The storage solution can be scaled as needed. It has a storage capacity of 50 kWh and a maximum charging power of 10 kW, it said. The complete AC system comes with an integrated battery inverter and an optimized energy management system as standard.
The "brain" of the VDIUM 50 is the further developed "VoltStorage Control Unit" in combination with a revised redox flow-specific and patented sensor system that determines the state of charge. As CTO Michael Peither specified, this should once again increase the reliability and longevity of the battery.
Compared to conventional storage solutions from lithium and lead-sulfuric acid, the Munich emphasize three advantages of their storage solution: - The technology is said to be particularly environmentally friendly, as no rare raw materials or even conflict raw materials from crisis or war zones are required. - It is very user-friendly and offers a high security standard. The reason: The storage medium consists largely of water and vanadium and is therefore neither flammable nor combustible. - Stationary storage systems based on redox flow technology could be charged and discharged any number of times without losing storage capacity. Voltstorage thus considers its storage system to be "currently the longest-lasting storage solution" in a global comparison.
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