"EnerVault welcomes NORAM’s decades of industrial engineering design expertise to support the commercialization of our long-duration, grid-scale energy storage systems," said Jim Pape, EnerVault CEO.
"With NORAM’s expertise in system design for simplicity, reliability and safety, we expect EnerVault’s long-duration, grid-scale energy storage systems to meet the capital cost and energy delivery cost targets established by the U.S. Department of Energy."
"EnerVault’s technology represents the safest of the ready-to-scale chemistries for redox flow batteries, a primary attraction for us to work with Jim and his team," said Tony Boyd, NORAM’s president and COO.
"EnerVault’s long-duration, grid-scale energy storage systems are built with components and processes that are fully scaled in other industries. With effective engineering, NORAM believes that EnerVault’s energy storage systems will be very cost-competitive."
In January, 2014, EnerVault began commissioning the largest iron-chromium redox flow battery in the field anywhere in the world: a 250 kilowatt, 4-hour system capable of delivering 1 megawatt-hour of stored energy.
Located in Turlock, California, and sited on agricultural land in combination with a ground-mounted solar system, the EnerVault redox flow battery system will begin operation in the spring of 2014.
