Vanadium energy storage system concepts for telecommunications applications

Author

Hawkins, John M. ; Robbins, Tim

Author_Institution

Telepower Australia Pty Ltd., Knoxfield, Vic., Australia

fYear

1999

fDate

36312

Abstract

The vanadium redox battery (VRB) is a flow battery technology that has technical performance characteristics which are attractive for a number of industrial energy storage applications, including diesel-abatement concepts in remote area power supply (RAPS) applications, standby power plant, medium and large-scale grid-connected load-leveling, and distributed power conditioning. VRB technology is currently undergoing commercialization. The VRB exhibits considerable cost competitiveness against many conventional energy storage technologies, and has a number of unique design attributes well suited for applications within telecommunications powering infrastructure. This paper describes concepts to integrate the basic VRB into a new and unique energy storage technology-the vanadium energy storage system (VESS)-for use in telecommunications powering applications

Keywords

secondary cells; telecommunication power supplies; vanadium; diesel replacement applications; distributed power conditioning; energy storage technology; flow battery technology; grid-connected load-leveling; remote PV application; remote area power supply; remote solar application; standby power plant; technical performance characteristics; telecommunications powering applications; vanadium energy storage system; vanadium redox battery; Australia; Batteries; Chemical technology; Costs; Electricity supply industry; Emergency power supplies; Energy storage; Large-scale systems; Power generation; Reservoirs;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunication Energy Conference, 1999. INTELEC '99. The 21st International

Conference_Location

Copenhagen

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5624-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INTLEC.1999.794123

Filename

794123