Vanadium energy storage system concepts for telecommunications applications

The vanadium redox battery (VRB) is a flow battery technology that has technical performance characteristics which are attractive for a number of industrial energy storage applications, including diesel-abatement concepts in remote area power supply (RAPS) applications, standby power plant, medium and large-scale grid-connected load-leveling, and distributed power conditioning. VRB technology is currently undergoing commercialization. The VRB exhibits considerable cost competitiveness against many conventional energy storage technologies, and has a number of unique design attributes well suited for applications within telecommunications powering infrastructure. This paper describes concepts to integrate the basic VRB into a new and unique energy storage technology-the vanadium energy storage system (VESS)-for use in telecommunications powering applications.