Canada-based vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) producer Cellcube is to be part of a new consortium that will develop and build grid-scale storage and solar projects in the UK.
Cellcube has partnered with UK solar-storage firm Hive Energy and energy storage consultants Immersa to form the HICC Energy consortium — which will develop projects using third-party financing and grants.
The move follows the formation earlier this year of a separate partnership between Cellcube and Immersa.
HICC said the partners “have identified a combined long duration storage with solar to be the most competitive and commercially attractive solution under current UK regulation”.
An undisclosed first site is being developed “for going live” later this year offering peaking power and reserve power capacity, the partners said.
Cellcube CEO Stefan Schauss (pictured) said the use of VFRB technology meant the consortium could offer “real energy-centric storage while outperforming lowest levelised costs previously not available in battery energy storage when supporting use cases with two or more equivalent cycles per day”.