Australian Vanadium Ltd (ASX:AVL, OTCQB:ATVVF) welcomes the arrival of a vanadium flow battery (VFB) at Fremantle Port for transportation to its vanadium electrolyte manufacturing facility and subsequently for use at the Horizon Power site in Kununurra in northern Western Australia
The company’s 100%-owned subsidiary VSUN Energy and WA utility Horizon Power will undertake factory acceptance testing (FAT) ahead of the battery’s installation and commission at the Kununurra site.
This 220kWh battery, which can deliver up to 78kW of power, will undertake FAT in early 2024 and during this process, VSUN Energy will host a number of industry participants to view the battery.
Tests of the vanadium flow battery will be held in conjunction with Horizon Power and will demonstrate a variety of use cases.
Once all final project components are received by Horizon Power, the battery will be deployed to a site in Kununurra for VSUN Energy to install and commission.
Step in ‘pit to battery’ strategy
Australian Vanadium CEO Graham Arvidson said: “The arrival of the vanadium flow battery for VSUN Energy’s Horizon Power project demonstrates another key step in AVL’s ‘pit to battery’ strategy.
“We are looking forward to working with Horizon Power to successfully deliver this project, allowing the utility to benefit from the role that vanadium flow batteries can play in enabling decarbonisation and providing reliable, low-cost, long-duration grid energy storage, with the potential for high levels of local content when coupled with AVL’s WA-made vanadium electrolyte.”
Horizon Power entered into a contract with VSUN Energy in July 2023 to purchase its first vanadium flow battery. The battery will be used for a long-duration energy storage pilot in Kununurra and has been supplied by leading global manufacturer, Invinity Energy Systems.