News Brief: Flow battery based on PNNL chemistry commissioned
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Source: PNNL
Date: Tuesday, March 28th, 2017
March 28, 2017 
MUKILTEO, Wash. - Officials are celebrating the installation of the world's biggest containerized vanadium flow battery storage system by capacity, which uses electrolyte chemistry developed at the D.O.E.'s Pacific Northwest National Lab.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, PNNL's Jud Virden and others are gathering today at the headquarters of UniEnergy Technologies, also known as UET, whose advanced vanadium flow battery was recently installed at a Snohomish PUD substation near Everett, Wash. The two megawatt/8 megawatt-hour battery was installed for one of 5 different energy storage plans awarded matching grants in 2014 through the state's Clean Energy Fund.
PNNL is providing analytical and technical support for all the projects. PNNL developed use cases, or detailed descriptions of the many ways energy storage can increase renewable energy use and enhance the efficiency and resiliency of the power grid. PNNL is also testing the performance of the battery systems and evaluating the economic impacts of the various services provided by them. For more information about PNNL's involvement, see this 2014 news release.
Tags: Energy, Fundamental Science, Batteries, Chemistry
Interdisciplinary teams at Pacific Northwest National Lab address many of America's most pressing issues in energy, the environment and national security through advances in basic and applied science. Founded in 1965, PNNL employs 4,400 staff and has an yearly budget of nearly $1 billion. It is managed by Battelle for the D.O.E.'s Office of Science. As the single biggest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, the Office of Science is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information on PNNL, visit the PNNL News Center, or follow PNNL on Facebook, Google+, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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