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 The MELODY consortium, backed with €4 million from the EU, will work on the next generation membrane-less flow-batteries for another leap in low cost large-scale energy storage.
Read more about this exciting program... Koolen Industries has signed the agreement for a multi-million investment in the electricity storage company Elestor BV. After years of research and development, Elestor is at the verge of introducing its revolutionary hydrogen bromine flow battery to the market. This technology is a next step in low cost electricity storage at scale.  Kees Koolen, owner of clean energy conglomerate Koolen Industries and former CEO of booking.com and early investor in Uber: “Elestor’s storage systems are designed for large scale stationary applications, whereby the storage costs per kWh are impressively low. With Elestor, another exciting storage technology has been added to the group of companies that we invest in. Since these technologies are complementary and serve a different range of applications, we are together able to deliver turnkey solutions for virtually every demand, in all markets and on a very large scale. The unique Flow Battery technology from Elestor fits extremely well in that strategy.”
Read more...  Only the storage technology offering operational costs low enough to create an attractive return on investment has sufficient leverage to boost the energy transition. Elestor’s breakthrough flow batteries store electricity at only a fraction of the costs of conventional batteries, safely and with a very long lifetime.
Read Elestor Brochure... Largest hydrogen bromine flow battery in the world will be completed by Dutch developer
Elestor acquired the FlowBox project assets from Areva. This project, headed by Areva with the partners InnoEnergy France, EnStorage and Schneider Electronics, developed and built a prototype hydrogen bromine flow battery of 150 kW / 900 kWh. This is the largest hydrogen bromine flow battery in the world. Read more...  ITM Group uit Kampen is de eerste commerciële klant van Elestor met een waterstof-broom flow batterij. De batterij wordt ingezet voor het smart grid van ITM om voor langere periode zelfvoorzienend te kunnen worden. Het Elestor systeem zal in 2019 verder worden opgeschaald.
Lees verder... VPRO tegenlicht heeft Wiebrand Kout, founder en CTO van Elestor uitgeroepen tot één van de winnaars van de Groen Techpioniers.   ITM Group will be the launching customer for Elestor's revolutionary flow battery. Starting with a current pilot system that will be expanded in a number of steps to a system of 400 kW power and a capacity of 1 MWh of energy.
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