My podcast this week is an interview with VRB Power’s CEO Timothy Hennessy. We talk about the economics of energy storage, how his flow-battery system works, and what opportunities lie ahead to couple flow batteries with wind farms and solar farms, both off-grid and grid-tie. Of course, there are other applications discussed as well.
Tyler Hamilton is editor-in-chief of Corporate Knights magazine and a business columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. In addition to this Clean Break blog, Tyler writes a weekly column of the same name that discusses trends, happenings and innovators in the clean technology and green energy market. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005. It is not an official blog of the newspaper.
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November 21st, 2006 at 5:19 pm
Great podcast.
A couple points I would have liked to have heard:
what is the total cost per kwh discharge? In other words, how much will the batteries add to the cost of wind energy delivered. if wind energy costs 0.03-0.05 cents per kwh, then how much will it cost with a flow battery backup?