ASX-listed battery storage company Redflow says it expects to launch its “plug and play” home battery storage unit next month, with the first residential installations set to take place in June.
Brisbane-based Redflow, whose unique zinc bromine flow battery technology has previously targeted the commercial market, as well as off-grid mining applications, said in an ASX release on Wednesday that it planned to launch its entry into the residential energy storage space at the end of March 2016.
“Product information provided at this launch will include pictures of the new Redflow external battery enclosure and its use in a residential context, performance specifications and system pricing examples,” the company said.
Redflow said the company was already seeing “substantial interest” in the home battery units from its shareholders, who would be offered a discount on them to support the initial phase of the launch process.
The company said it was also working with various installer partners to set up some initial ‘exemplar’ residential installations in a number of different settings.
“Based on the expected timetable for resuming battery manufacture with Flex (as noted above), we are expecting the first residential customer system installations featuring …to occur from June 2016,” the release said.
The company said it also intended to deliver technology to complement the home batteries, including the Redflow Battery Management System (BMS).
This would allow an installer with nothing more than a web browser to achieve commissioning, configuration, and interface of a Redflow battery with multiple readily available inverter/charger electronics systems on the market today, it said.
The ASX report also noted the company’s successful completion of its “end user trial” in an African commercial solar power project, with orders expected to follow.
Sophie is editor of One Step Off The Grid and deputy editor of its sister site, Renew Economy. Sophie has been writing about clean energy for more than a decade.
This post was published on February 10, 2016 12:31 pm
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Excellent news. Redflow has been steadily working away for quite sometime. Very impressive - deserves to succeed.
RedFlow and other flow battery systems can be very useful for getting off-grid. The 5% of the power coming from the grid in the example above can be substituted by additional solar panels and a fast reacting 'peaking' power source, such as a Li-ion battery.
With enough storage potential, flow batteries can solve the 'corner' case where you have no sun for two or three days. Storage capacity for flow batteries is relatively inexpensive, and keeping a few days of charge sitting around should not be unreasonably expensive.
Personally, I am looking at a RedFlow system for 'baseload' and seasonal storage.
Adding some fast reacting 'peaking' power to the mix then gets you off the grid.