Please find here the presentations of all the sessions of IFBF 2026 in PDF
Day One – Tuesday 16 June
09:15 – WELCOME
09:30 – DEPLOYMENT OF LARGE-SCALE FLOW BATTERIES AND ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS
- Sponsor’s Keynote Address: CellCube: Christoph Stelzer, CellCube: Long Duration Energy Storage Solution for a Sustainable Future
- Christian Barba Rodulfo, EDP Renewables: Experience with Long Duration Energy Storage, thermal and other storage types
- Karl Anton Zach, Verbund: Why Aren’t Large Redox Flow Batteries Implemented in Central Europe Yet? A Utility’s Perspective
- Jan grosse Austing, Vanevo: Business Cases for Flow Batteries
- Philip Krause, Rongke Power: Accelerating VRFB Adoption Through Vanadium Electrolyte Leasing
- Pascal Wyss, Flexbase: Developing a multi 100 MW FB in Switzerland
- Jean Louis Cols, Invinity Energy Systems, Using effective partnerships to scale up for utility-scale vanadium flow batteries
11:30 – POLICIES AND PLANS TO PROMOTE LONG DURATION ENERGY STORAGE AND FLOW BATTERIES IN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA
- Viktor Horváth, Deputy State Secretary for Energy Transition, Hungary: Diverse energy storage technologies for a balanced energy transition
- David Hochschild, Chair of California Energy Commission: Why is California investing in Long Duration Energy Storage and Flow Batteries
- Andrew Deadman, Faraday Institution: Looking for the next generation Long Duration Energy Storage Technology
- Lara Ottendorfer, Austrian Federal Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism: Policies and plans to promote long duration energy storage and flow batteries
14:00 – PRESENT AND FUTURE OPERATIONAL DEPLOYMENT OF FLOW BATTERIES
- Chris Basinski, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD): Finance for renewables and storage in the EU
- Richard Campbell, UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ): The GB example of a cap and floor for LDES
- Massimo Guarnieri, University of Padua: Flow Battery share of the LDES market.
- Conrad Nichols, IDTechEx: The Global view of the flow battery market
- Johannes Haentzschel, Prolux Solutions: The flow battery markets in DACH (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)
15:00 – PANEL DISCUSSION: FLOW BATTERY DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT IN AUSTRALIA
- Jens Noack, Fraunhofer Institute-ICT: Flow Batteries in Australia / Queensland
- Caroline Stott, Energy Transformation – The University of Queensland
- Fraser Hughson, Allegro Energy
- Jeremy Peters, Vecco Gp
16:00 – THE MARKET POTENTIAL FOR FLOW BATTERIES
- Shaun Vagne, Idemitsu Australia: Supporting mining operations in Australia
- Jeehyang Huh, H2: Insights into the design and operation of a LDES VFB in Spain
- Yannick Seiler, Fraunhofer ICT: Update on the VFB at Fraunhofer-ICT
- Arjun Bhattarai, VFlowTech: Opportunities in Singapore
- Andrii Bondar, R-Flow: Flow batteries as a tool for rebuilding Ukraine’s energy grid
- Ahmad Hammad, Saudi Aramco: Development of a flow battery technology for manufacture and development in Saudi Arabia
Day Two – Wednesday 25 June
09:00 – VANADIUM SYSTEMS
- Terry Perles, TTP Squared, Inc: Vanadium market analysis
- Svetlana Novikova, RDI Center: Central Asian Production for VFB
- Nataliya Roznyatovskaya, Fraunhofer-ICT: Lab test methods for VFB electrolytes
- Adam Whitehead, CellCube: The economics of state of health management for VFB
- Alasdair Robertson, Invinity Energy Systems: VFB Electrolyte: Performance and Durability
- Mike Perry, Storion Energy: High-Performance Vanadium Flow Battery (VFB) Electrolyte and Cell Stacks are the Key to Low Cost VFB Systems
- Daisaku Taguchi, Sumitomo Electric Industries: Development and modelling of large-scale vanadium flow batteries
11:15 – SCALE UP AND OPERATION OF INORGANIC FLOW BATTERY SYSTEMS
- Eleonora Natale, Politecno Milano: Scaling Zn-Mn Flow Batteries: Performance & Economic Assessment
- Norah Alghamdi, University of Queensland: Optimizing zinc-ion salvation for ZnBr
- Erlantz Villar, KTH Royal Institute of Technology: A Systematic Study on the Performance and Stability of Hydrogen-Manganese Flow Battery
- Yorick Baljeu, Aquabattery: Aquabattery at Deltares: Scaling Sustainable, Cost-Effective, Behind-the-Meter Energy Storage using water and table salt
- Andreas Podias, TNO: Project TULIP: Flow batteries at Schiphol Airport
- John Alper, VoltStorage: Iron Salt Battery for Grid Scale Applications – MWh scaling
- Mikhail Petrov, Aarhus University: All-iron dual flow battery for energy storage coupled with room temperature hydrogen production
14:00 – HYBRID AND ORGANIC SYSTEMS: IMPROVEMENTS IN MANUFACTURING, DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT
- Sponsor’s Keynote Address: QUINO ENERGY: Eugene Beh, Quino Energy: Multi MWh scale production of quinone flow batteries
- Cristina Flox, Iberian Center for Research in Energy Storage: Promising organic flow batteries
- Thomas Guarr, Jolt Energy: Optimization of a High Performance Nonaqueous Organic Redox Flow Battery Via Machine Learning
- Liyu Li, Cougar Creek: Second generation Fe Cr
- Ishani Natha, Arxo Metals: From Mine to Megawatt Hour: Sustainable Low-Cost Industrial Scale Production of Iron-Chromium Flow Battery Electrolyte
- Bin Luo, University of Queensland: Advancing aqueous zinc- and iron-based flow battery systems
- Fraser Hughson, Allegro Energy: Microemulsion flow battery at Australia’s largest power station
- Shail Godiwala, UNSW: Model predictive control of vanadium flow batteries for optimised economic benefit during power arbitrage
- Nate Kirchhofer, BioZen: Development and validation of a flexible, low-cost, small-volume flow cell platform for high-throughput flow battery research, development, and deployment
Day Three – Thursday 26 June
09:00 – MANUFACTURING, PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY
- Thorsten Seipp, Volterion: What’s the perfect stack size?
- Laura Giorgia Rizzi, Flow Nano: Nanostructured carbon electrodes
- James Han, ACM Tokyo: Carbon felt made of recycled aircraft parts for ample supply, quality assured, unit cost savings, and performance enhancement
- Georg Lieser, Schmalz: Minimizing Pressure Loss and Shunt currents
- Matthias Gebert, Syensqo Specialty Polymers: Towards enlarging ionomer solutions for RFB with a fluorine-free ionomer
- Lukas Pachernegg-Mair, Ecolyte: Biobased Membranes for Redox Flow Batteries
- Rick Winter, Enduro: How can flow battery manufacturers achieve a breakthrough?
11:15 – BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES FOR FLOW BATTERIES
- Michael Weixelbraun, Burgenland Energy: Enhancing a power supplier’s customer service with renewable power and energy storage
- Philippe Stevens, EDF: EDF’s programme to evaluate flow batteries and other energy storage types
- Kees van de Kerk, Volterion / Flow Batteries Europe: Policy objectives for flow batteries
- Michael Pinzl, CellCube: The growth of the flow battery industry
- György Czipó, Ideona Zrt.: Vanadium Redox Flow Energy Storage Technology Presentation
- Jan Girshik, Fraunhofer UMSICHT: Project Spaceflow
12:15 – CONFERENCE CLOSING SUMMARY AND PRESENTATION OF AWARDS
Our short summary of the proceedings will follow the presentation of awards for the poster session.