Renewable Energy Smoothing and Integration with Vanadium Redox Batteries
The intermittent nature of wind makes adequate storage of the electrical energy generated a crucial part of a robust solution for modern electrical grids. In collaboration with the China Electric Power Research Institute (CEPRI) Prudent Energy has leveraged the 30 wind turbines with 78 MW of generating capacity at the National Wind Power Integration Research and Test Centre operated by CEPRI to demonstrate at a grid scale the ability of vanadium redox flow batteries to store intermittent energy generated by wind turbines before smoothly supplying this energy into the grid. This enables the operators to match power output precisely with demand, an important feature as this capability, referred to as dispatchability in power generation, is one major advantage that fossil fuel and other non-renewable forms of power generation have had over renewable alternatives. As the State Grid Corporation of China and utilities worldwide progresses towards integrating more renewable energy into the energy supply electrical storage solutions like vanadium redox batteries will have to be part of the solution.

