Australian Renewable Energy Agency backs vanadium flow battery project in outback SA
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The demonstration facility is set to be built at Yadlamalka, near Hawker in outback South Australia.
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Technology first discovered at the University of New South Wales in the 1980s will be "coming home" on an industrial scale, with Australia's Renewable Energy Agency backing construction of the country's first utility-scale vanadium flow battery in outback South Australia.
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Federal Government agency the REA has put nearly $6 million toward the utility-scale vanadium flow battery
It says the technology could "play a major role" in addressing Australia's need for increased "heavy-duty" energy storage