Quino Energy has also shared plans to expand its production footprint into the European Union and prioritise field pilot development and commercial sales on a global scale.
This milestone adds to the company's recent successes with a 6 kW/24 kWh pilot system and two other 1.5 kW/6 kWh systems currently operating at its facility. With these pilot systems, Quino Energy has demonstrated its chemistry working in full systems – originally designed for vanadium but adapted for use by Quino Energy with minimal modifications – made by two separate flow battery OEMs.
Notably, all four lab pilot systems use the same full-size stacks found in megawatt-scale systems and active material made in Buffalo, NY by Electrosynthesis Company, Quino Energy’s Department of Energy (DOE) project partner. As part of the DOE project, Quino Energy will send one of its lab pilots to the Grid Storage Launchpad at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory at the end of the year for external validation.
Quino’s production process, which has now achieved ton-scale production, represents the first real example of US domestic manufacturing of flow battery active material, and is a testament to how easily Quino Energy’s innovative zero-waste production process can be scaled up to achieve lower costs. With the average household in America using approximately 29 kWh of electricity per day, Quino’s 100 kWh pilot can supply a home’s entire electricity needs for more than three whole days or three homes for one day. This is an energy storage capacity roughly equivalent to more than seven fully-charged Tesla Powerwalls combined.
“I continue to be amazed at the rapid progress that Quino Energy has made on scaling up their innovative zero-waste process for manufacturing organic flow battery electrolytes” said Changwon Suh, Technology Manager at the Department of Energy’s Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (DOE AMMTO). “With their low-cost, high-performance quinone chemistry, and general backward compatibility with vanadium flow battery hardware, Quino Energy's technology enables quick acceleration of time-to-market and scale up. This next generation storage technology reduces manufacturing costs and eliminates the need to use critical materials, supporting greater commercial acceptance and innovative applied RD&D. Quino’s organic flow battery electrolytes serve as an example of DOE AMMTO’s vision of bridging the gap between academic discovery and commercialisation through collaborative RD&D and use of innovative materials and manufacturing that supports a clean, decarbonized economy.”
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