Elcora is developing a vanadium pentoxide plant in Morocco to complement raw materials extraction.

Invinity and BASF have announced the first deployments of their non-lithium battery storage tech in Hungary and Australia respectively.

Australian Vanadium has secured a site and progressed the design and development of a flow battery electrolyte facility in Western Australia.

Long-duration energy storage was firmly on the agenda and among the talking points of attendees at Energy Storage Summit EU in London.

Suncor’s plan to recover vanadium from coke-fired boilers will receive CA$7 million (US$5.2 million) government funding.

South Africa could play a big role in the global battery value chain with the potential for 10-15GWh of domestic demand for battery energy storage by 2030, according to a report from the World Bank.

Sumitomo Electric will step up its VRFB business in the US, with plans to invest in local production and installation capabilities.

Singapore-based VFlowTech has raised a US$10 million Series A to set up a manufacturing facility and scale up production of its 250kWh vanadium flow battery product.

A demonstration facility to prove out Australia’s capabilities in critical minerals processing will be built in North Queensland.

The vanadium flow battery sector received a boost this week with news of a rental partnership between Invinity and Dawsongroup plc, a new electrolyte plant in Germany and a whitepaper around the technology’s environmental impact.