Up to 20,000 diesel-generated storage platforms at base transceiver stations (BTS) in China will be converted to renewable energy sources after a two-year deal won by Imergy Power Systems.
Imergy will partner the Juno Capital Group to install redox flow batteries that use recycled vanadium from mining slag, oil field sludge, fly ash and other forms of environmental waste. The company claims it can purify the vanadium, the principle ingredient in flow battery electrolytes, to 98%.
Flow batteries are charged and discharged by a reversible reduction oxidation reaction (redox) between the two liquid electrolytes of the battery.
Imergy’s batteries feature high-energy density vanadium electrolyte with proprietary formulation and aqueous electrolyte.
Investment firm Juno Group will integrate Imergy’s storage platforms into off-grid or weakly connected telecommunications installations in the country that are currently powered by diesel.
Last week, BEST reported that one of the world’s largest vanadium redox flow batteries had been installed for the Chinese State Grid about 60 kilometres outside Beijing.
