Protean installs V-KOR vanadium battery
Date: Jun 6, 2018
Protean Energy has installed a 25kW V-KOR vanadium battery at the site of OzLinc Industries in O’Connor Perth, Western Australia.
Protean Energy Ltd (ASX: POW) has installed a 25kW (100kWh) V-KOR vanadium battery at the site of OzLinc Industries in O’Connor Perth, Western Australia.
There, it will be used in a micro grid situation aEUR” isolated from the main electrical grid aEUR” in combination with a 21kW solar PV system and a 21kW diesel generator.
Demonstrating the V-KOR vanadium battery in a micro grid situation is the first phase of the company’s Australian trial, with the second phase involving the incorporation and integration of the solar system and the V-KOR battery with the Western Power electricity grid.
The micro grid trial at OzLinc will demonstrate how the V-KOR battery operates as part of an off-grid solution in commercial/industrial premises.
POW’s V-KOR vanadium battery solution is an enabler technology for renewable energy which can be used in conjunction with solar systems, wind turbines or natural gas generators anywhere with access to a natural gas pipeline.
The V-KOR battery can offer customers energy certainty, as well as providing the option to store energy when it is either available from the grid at off peak rates or when a solar system or wind farm is generating power for free.
