At the same time, as Iron is more than 80 times cheaper than lithium as a raw material, large scale storage costs will be cheaper. The use of water based electrolytes also means that the battery is inherently safer than most lithium alternatives
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PSR Analysis: Flow Batteries are, generally speaking, large and not mobile, so this new development (if it translates into the commercial world) will only apply to stationary power sources such as industrial power generation. PSR
Guy Youngs is Forecast & Adoption Lead at Power Systems Research
