Get your tickets now! The countdown begins—we’re just one month away from the IFBF 2025, taking place 24–26 June at the Intercontinental Hotel in Vienna. As the leading global event dedicated to flow battery innovation, IFBF continues to be the go-to forum for cutting-edge developments, collaboration, and discussion within the long-duration energy storage sector. We…

The global energy landscape is shifting, with many seeking to reduce dependency on fossil fuels to drive sustainability and decarbonisation. However, renewable energy sources like solar and wind are inherently intermittent, creating a need for stable, long-duration energy storage solutions. Flow batteries provide a viable, long-term answer, allowing the storage of excess energy during peak…

This year, we return to Vienna for the IFBF, and we will be hosting by Cellcube. Christoph Stelzer, their COO will welcome us and introduce Cellcube’s flow battery strategy. This week’s changes will, of course, be heavy on our minds. But the world still needs energy storage. So we are very pleased to announce that Commissioner…

We are excited to invite you to submit your proposals for presentations, panel discussions, posters, and papers for IFBF 2025. Please help us create an interesting and varied agenda. The closing date for submissions is 31 January 2025. Click here for further information and submission form. The International Flow Battery Forum brings together the worldwide community of everyone…

The news has likely reached everyone: in 2024, vanadium flow batteries turn 40 years old. From left to right in the picture: Franz Grossmith, Maria Skyllas-Kazacos, Michael Kazacos, Miron Rychcik. It all began in 1984 with the first experiments conducted by Honours Thesis student Elaine Sum (who later completed her PhD in aluminium smelting) at the…

On Monday 24 June, the IFBF holds its pre-conference workshop at the Hilton Glasgow Invinity Energy Systems, our host for this year’s International Flow Battery Forum, produces flow batteries for international markets. They will be leading our pre-conference workshop and briefing on flow batteries on Monday 24 June. This is an ideal opportunity for you to learn…

I have just been sent a link to the International Energy Agency’s report on Batteries and Secure Energy Transitions. Forgive me, but my first instinct on reading any report on batteries is to search for references to flow batteries. The word flow is mentioned 22 times in the report, but a few of these refer…

At last year’s IFBF conference we addressed several major questions about the future deployment of flow batteries. We all agreed on the demand for electrical energy storage, and so our debates focussed on the commercial, technical and regulatory framework for flow battery deployment. Long duration energy storage is discussed more and more frequently. Sometimes we don’t know…

In June 2024, come to Glasgow to talk flow batteries with experts from all over the world! From 25 to 27 June 2024, the International Flow Battery Forum (IFBF) will hold its thirteenth in-person conference at the Hilton Hotel, Glasgow, supported by Invinity Energy Systems and Flow Batteries Europe. Over three days the conference will…