A demonstration facility to prove out Australia’s capabilities in critical minerals processing will be built in North Queensland.

The vanadium flow battery sector received a boost this week with news of a rental partnership between Invinity and Dawsongroup plc, a new electrolyte plant in Germany and a whitepaper around the technology’s environmental impact.

A roundup of the biggest projects, financing and offtake deals in the sector that Energy-Storage.news has reported on this year.

CellCube and North Harbour Clean Energy in talks to build factory in Australia with 1GW/8GWh annual production capacity.

H2 Inc, a South Korean vanadium flow battery company, has begun construction of a factory with 330MWh annual manufacturing capacity.

California Energy Commission approved funding for solar-plus-storage microgrid project which will include Invinity’s largest flow battery to date.

CellCube has formed an R&D partnership in Australia in anticipation of establishing a presence in the country’s long-duration energy storage market.

A 1.8MWh flow battery has been installed and energised at the European Marine Energy Centre test site in Scotland’s Orkney Isles.

Largo Clean Energy, part of vanadium primary producer Largo Resources, and Ansaldo Green Tech are exploring the potential of a joint venture for deploying vanadium flow batteries.