Over three days, the conference will feature talks, panel sessions, open discussions, networking breaks, a poster session, a conference dinner and a local site visit.
The International Flow Battery Forum (IFBF) is the leading event for the flow battery community. The IFBF promotes the most recent developments in the science, technology and commercialisation of flow batteries. Their conferences cover a broad range of interests in the research and commercial aspects of flow batteries.
The programme
Commissioner David Hochshild, Chair of the California Energy Commission, will address the IFBF this year. He will be explaining the background to California’s Long Duration Energy Storage initiative and the need to have diversity in energy storage systems, with 6 different non-lithium long duration technologies under development and demonstration. Under the CEC’s guidance, California has one of the boldest programmes in the world for supporting new energy technologies.
There will be also a keynote address from Viktor Horváth, Deputy State Secretary for the Energy Transition of Hungary, on the topic of diverse energy storage technologies for the energy transition.
Users and operators of storage including Verbund, Energie Burgenland, EDF and EDP Renewables will talk on the role of flow batteries and energy storage in their operations, and Rongke Power will speak on the challenges and operational performance of their multi 100 MWh flow batteries in China. Going back to Europe, Flexbase, will expand on their plans for a 100 MW plus flow battery in Switzerland.
The event will close with a report on flow batteries in space by Fraunhofer UMSICHT, and the news of a programme funded by the German Space Agency.
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