Australian firms Redflow and carbonTRACK have announced an agreement to create virtual power plants (VPP) using zinc-bromine flow batteries.
The partnership will enable end-users to use intelligent control algorithms to optimise the benefits of flow batteries by tailoring the total power system to individual needs.
The companies are exploring opportunities in the South African market where the unreliability of its national electricity grid provides opportunities for VPPs to stabilise the grid.
The target customers in South Africa include commercial, large residential deployments and off-grid energy systems.
Redflow managing director and CEO, Tim Harris, said the collaboration enabled flow batteries to become a part of a broader suite of energy assets that could be efficiently monitored, coordinated and controlled.
Redflow produces small 10kWh zinc-bromine flow batteries that tolerate daily 100% depth-of-discharge in high ambient temperatures. The batteries are scalable from a single battery up to grid-scale deployments.
