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 David Hochshild, Chair of the California Energy Commission, has accepted our invitation to address the IFBF this year. He will be explaining the background to California’s Long Duration Energy Storage initiative and the need to have diversity in energy storage systems, with 6 different non-lithium long duration technologies under development and demonstration.
Under the CEC’s guidance, California has a big portfolio of operational flow batteries and the CEC intends to increase the state’s portfolio. So it is going to be very timely to find out how recent changes might impact on one of the boldest programmes in the world for supporting new energy technologies. Up till now, flow batteries from not only the USA, but also Europe and Asia have been successfully installed in California and more are planned.
We also have a keynote address from Viktor Horváth, Deputy State Secretary for the Energy Transition of Hungary, on the topic of diverse energy storage technologies for the energy transition. This leads into talks and discussions on the different support mechanisms for long duration energy storage and flow batteries in particular. We will compare the recent programme for cap and floor capacity payments for long duration storage in Great Britain with other types of support both for technical development and for growing the market for long duration energy storage.
We will discuss the business cases for flow batteries, both at large scale, and at the smaller distributed scale. Users and operators of storage including Verbund, Energie Burgenland, EDF and EDP Renewables will talk on the role of flow batteries and energy storage in their operations, and we will also hear from Philip Krause of Rongke Power on the challenges and operational performance of their multi 100 MWh flow batteries in China. Pascal Wyss from Flexbase, will expand on their plans for a 100 MW plus flow battery in Switzerland.
Data centres, renewable energy installations, grid balancing and industrial and commercial facilities need large scale installations for energy management. But energy storage is also diverse and can be distributed, so we will also include smaller scale installations, and a range of technology types. With our eyes on the skies, we will close with a report on flow batteries in space by Jan Girschik of Fraunhofer UMSICHT, and the news of a programme funded by the German Space Agency.
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