Is this the biggest battery ever?

[Muhendis]

Redflow is an Australian company making Zinc Bromine flow batteries.They have a manufacturing plant in Thailand.

These batteries are priced well beyond reach of consumers like me but are ideally suited to grid scale applications and remote base stations etc.

This installation will be in California where they think really big.

https://redflow.com/project/redflow-to-supply-20-mwh-flow-battery-system-for-project-in-california

[Encid]

Not the biggest battery ever... 

 

 

Gargantuan 1.4 GW / 2.8 GWh battery approved for NSW

 

The New England megaproject just became even more mega, and is now set to house a 1.4 GW / 2.8 GWh battery – taking the crown for Australia’s biggest battery.

Developer ACEN Australia says the NSW government has approved its expanded battery proposal, which is set to go in next door to its 720 MW New England Solar project.

 

Read the full story from PV Magazine here.

[Bandersnatch]

@Muhendis I was interested in RedFlow's Zinc Bromine Batteries particularly when I heard that they were manufactured here in Thailand. So back in 2018 I contacted the reseller ([email protected])  and they quoted me US$16,000/AUS$24,000 for a 10kWh ZBM2 which at the time was twice as much as you could buy the same battery after it had been shipped from Thailand to Australia!

 

 

 

 

[Muhendis]

8 hours ago, Encid said:

Gargantuan 1.4 GW / 2.8 GWh battery approved for NSW

That's really big.

 

Any advances?

[Muhendis]

3 hours ago, Bandersnatch said:

twice as much as you could buy the same battery after it had been shipped from Thailand to Australia!

I also thought about Redflow as a home ESS solution and contacted the Ausie firm for prices etc. This was before manufacturing in Thailand. 

They gave me the contact number etc of a company in Chiang Mai who offered a ridiculously high price.

Did I buy? Never in a million years.

[Bandersnatch]

10 hours ago, Muhendis said:

I also thought about Redflow as a home ESS solution and contacted the Ausie firm for prices etc. This was before manufacturing in Thailand. 

They gave me the contact number etc of a company in Chiang Mai who offered a ridiculously high price.

Did I buy? Never in a million years.

I think that they are manufactured in a free port designed for companies wanting to manufacture for export. Once the batteries enter Thailand they are treated as being imported and are subject to import duties!