Australian Renewable Energy Agency backs vanadium flow battery project in outback SA
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The demonstration facility is set to be built at Yadlamalka, near Hawker in outback South Australia.
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Technology first discovered at the University of New South Wales in the 1980s will be coming home on an industrial scale, with Australia s Renewable Energy Agency backing construction of the country s first utility-scale vanadium flow battery in outback South Australia.
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Federal Government agency the REA has put nearly $6 million toward the utility-scale vanadium flow battery
It says the technology could play a major role in addressing Australia s need for increased heavy-duty energy storage