Two weeks after announcing its acquisition of Harmony Energy, Swiss power firm Alpiq has unveiled its first large-scale battery project in its home country.
A 2.1GWh, data centre-paired vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) project in Switzerland will be among the first of its scale that represents a specific use case for the technology, the president of design partner Invinity Energy Systems told Energy-Storage.news.
Invinity Energy Systems has been enlisted to design and deliver the world’s largest flow battery, for a data centre project in Switzerland currently under construction by Flexbase.
Iron-sodium battery manufacturer Inlyte Energy and data centre operator NTS Colocation are partnering to deploy 2MW of iron-sodium battery capacity by 2028.
In this Energy-Storage.news roundup, Energy Vault enters the Swiss energy storage market, ZincFive raises Series F financing, and Convergent Energy and Power secures a multimillion-dollar facility provided by NY Green Bank.
Advances in sodium-ion battery energy storage systems come from Peak Energy in the US, deploying its sodium-ion system in Colorado, and Phenogy, deploying Europe’s largest sodium-ion system in Germany.
Utility and power firms Axpo and energieUri will together deploy two BESS projects in Switzerland with technology provided by system integrator Fluence.
