This news is classified in: Sustainable Energy Storage
May 10, 2021
Redflow has today released a YouTube video introducing its new Energy Pod Z energy storage module, which provides access for the company to a high-voltage, high-capacity, grid-scale future
Each Redflow Energy Pod Z module, which integrates 16 Redflow batteries with world-leading power conversion technology, can deliver high-voltage energy and can scale as large as required.
In the video, Redflow Managing Director and CEO Tim Harris and Redflow’s System Integration Architect, Simon Hackett – also the company’s largest shareholder – explain the benefits of the new Energy Pod Z, which was designed to provide two megawatt-hours (2MWh) of energy storage for the Anaergia Rialto Bioenergy Facility in southern California.
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“Normally our batteries are 48 volt batteries. What we’re adding here is some technology from a great European company that makes power electronics that’s suited to flow batteries, that’s suited for our applications, that turns that low voltage into 800-900 volts.
“The point of doing that is when you want to deploy many megawatts of power, when you don’t just have a few batteries – you want hundreds of batteries, ultimately thousands of batteries – you need to do that at high voltage.
“So this is the key for us. Once you have this thing in the field, you can essentially have as many as you like…once you run this sort of advanced high-voltage system, the sky’s the limit.”
Tim explains that the Anaergia project is more than Redflow’s largest battery order: “It’s really the foundation for us to go into large megawatt-hour systems,” he said.
