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NEWS: China completes world’s largest vanadium flow battery plant

The world’s largest vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) energy storage project just completed main construction, a notable step for China’s utility-scale, long-duration energy storage. (ESS News)

  • The ¥3.8 billion ($520 million) project features a 200 MW/1 GWh battery system coupled with a 1 GW solar farm. Together, the system can provide five hours of continuous discharge.

  • Once online, the project is set to generate 1.72 TWh of electricity each year and slash annual carbon emissions by over 1.6 million tons.

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