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Bushveld News

– Vanadium producer Bushveld invests in scale up of Enerox flow battery manufacturing

Published: 15 April 2021

– Bushveld ups stake in battery maker Enerox

Published: 15 April 2021

– Bushveld Minerals Q4 and Full Year 2020 Operational Update

Published: 01 March 2021

– Bushveld Minerals delighted with solar power and vanadium-based energy storage project

Published: 01 March 2021

– Bushveld Minerals generates US$43mln in revenue in the first half, secures US$30mln in financing for expansion

Published: 01 March 2021

– Bushveld Minerals advances vanadium venture with contract for EDF’s Oxford ‘superhub’

Published: 01 March 2021

– Bushveld Minerals Full Year Results & 2020 Guidance Update

Published: 29 July 2020

– How Africa can corner a tenth of the world battery metals market

Published: 29 July 2020

– Bushveld Minerals to hold 8.71% of newly created Invinity Energy Systems plc

Published: 02 April 2020

– Vanadium producer Bushveld backs redT-Avalon flow battery merger deal

Published: 07 February 2020

– Bushveld group advances vanadium redox flow battery plans through Enerox deall

Published: 09 December 2019

– Bushveld gets nod from Competition Commission for Vanchem acquisition

Published: 14 November 2019

– Bushveld Minerals completes acquisitions

Published: 14 November 2019

– Bushveld Minerals takes another step towards VRFB investment platform

Published: 14 November 2019

– Vanadium batteries the solution to meet growing energy storage demand – Bushveld

Published: 13 August 2019

– Bushveld Energy commissions first VFRB project

Published: 01 April 2019

– Vanadium-powered batteries waiting to rescue Eskom

Published: 01 April 2019

– Vanadium batteries the solution to meet growing energy storage demand – Bushveld

Published: 17 November 2018

– Pledges worth R134bn committed at investment conference

Published: 17 November 2018

– USTDA Supports Energy Storage in South Africa, Creating Opportunities for U.S. Businesses

Published: 23 August 2018

– Bushveld Energy: an exciting year of growth as first project executed

Published: 23 May 2018

– Bushveld Energy progresses with electrolyte production facility, Eskom VRFB project

Published: 16 April 2018

– CNBC Africa: Interview with Mikhail Nikomarov, CEO Bushveld Energy

Published: 07 March 2018

– South Africa to pilot first utility-scale vanadium redox flow battery

Published: 07 March 2018

– Bushveld Minerals upbeat about year ahead

Published: 24 January 2018

– Bushveld Energy, IDC, Eskom to test first vanadium redox flow battery

Published: 15 December 2017

– Mikhail Nikomarov presents at SA Energy Conference (28 November 2017)

Published: 15 December 2017

Energy Storage News

– Energy Storage Is Now Booming As The World Moves Faster To Renewable Energy

Published: 15 April 2021

– Strong growth ahead for battery storage

Published: 15 April 2021

– UK ‘won’t meet climate targets without long-duration energy storage’

Published: 15 April 2021

– Against the odds, solar-plus-storage project emerges with lowest RMIPPPP bid

Published: 15 April 2021

– Key Long Duration Storage Technologies to Watch

Published: 15 April 2021

– US Secretary of Energy: ‘Flow batteries are good for grid storage’

Published: 15 April 2021

– Developing countries offer enormous market

Published: 01 March 2021

– Revisiting Vanadium Flow Batteries for Ship Propulsion

Published: 01 March 2021

– Mercom 2020 Q4 and Annual Funding and M&A Report for Storage, Grid & Efficiency

Published: 01 March 2021

– California will need up to 55GW of long-duration energy storage by 2045, study finds

Published: 01 March 2021

– The Largest All-Vanadium Redox Battery Photovoltaic Energy Storage Project in China Connected to the Grid

Published: 01 March 2021

– Invinity Flow Battery Costs Fell 30% Post-Merger, Says Exec

Published: 01 March 2021

– Grid-scale battery storage – reality or not?

Published: 01 March 2021

– Largo Resources Launches Largo Clean Energy

Published: 01 March 2021

– Battery life: the race to find a storage solution for a green energy future

Published: 01 March 2021

– $4.8 Billion Vanadium Redox Battery Markets

Published: 19 October 2020

– Solving California’s energy puzzle: Vanadium, artificial intelligence and everything in-between

Published: 19 October 2020

– Global storage heading to 741 GWh by 2030, WoodMac projects, amid ongoing challenges

Published: 19 October 2020

– 51MWh vanadium flow battery system ordered for wind farm in northern Japan

Published: 29 July 2020

– APS Details Cause of Battery Fire and Explosion, Proposes Safety Fixes

Published: 29 July 2020

– VoltStorage: €6M in Funding for further expansion

Published: 29 July 2020

– California CCAs solicit info on long duration storage

Published: 29 July 2020

– Enel to trial battery innovations on Balearics

Published: 29 July 2020

– Massachusetts is 3 months from implementing nation’s 1st clean peak standard

Published: 02 April 2020

– Battery storage can balance the grid and store excess energy

Published: 02 April 2020

– The 5 Most Promising Long-Duration Storage Technologies Left Standing

Published: 02 April 2020

– Avalon founder: Flow storage ‘can be much cheaper than lithium’

Published: 02 April 2020

– The accidental engineer who invented the vanadium sustainable battery

Published: 02 March 2020

– Bushveld Minerals Limited – BMN Bushveld Energy Operational Update

Published: 16 August 2017

– China turns to energy storage to push renewables

Published: 03 March 2017

– Bushveld Energy comments on the role of energy storage in South Africa’s draft Integrated Resource Plan (IRP)

Published: 25 January 2017

– Leveraging from Vanadium: Bushveld Minerals – CEO Interview

Published: 31 October 2016

– Fortune Mojapelo, CEO, provides an update on Bushveld Minerals and the Vametco acquisition

Published: 17 October 2016

– Mikhail Nikomarov, CEO of Bushveld Energy provides an overview of the company which is 84% owned by Bushveld Minerals

Published: 14 October 2016

– Bushveld Energy aiming to capitalise on Vanadium’s intellectual capital in South Africa

Published: 11 October 2016

– Bushveld starts studies into viability of VRFBs in South Africa

Published: 05 October 2016

– Bushveld Energy CEO, Mikhail Nikomarov speaks at the 2016 Africa Utility Week in Cape Town South Africa on why Africa stands to benefit the most from energy storage

Published: 17 May 2016

– Bushveld Minerals to buy Vametco

Published: 10 May 2016

– Bushveld CEO: PFS release adds confidence to vanadium project potential

Published: 04 February 2016

– PFS confirms robust economics at Bushveld’s vanadium project

Published: 04 February 2016

– Sparton assists in commissioning of 8 MWh Chinese vanadium-flow battery

Published: 27 January 2016

– Fortune Mojapelo, CEO, provides an update on the corporate activity and the launch of Bushveld Energy.

Published: 18 January 2016

– Bushveld confirms high grade vanadium in South Africa

Published: 18 November 2015

– The long read: Go big, go with the flow

Published: 16 February 2020

– South Korean Government Allows Flow Battery to Be Used for ESS.

Published: 16 February 2020

– California has big clean energy ambitions, and is looking for better energy storage to realize them

Published: 13 January 2020

– Contenders: Long duration energy storage technologies, and who’s behind them

Published: 13 January 2020

– CEC excludes lithium-ion from grant funding in ‘expression of no-confidence’, says expert

Published: 13 January 2020

– RedT says new funds by Christmas or it will cease trading

Published: 09 December 2019

– Bushveld announces strategy to work with vanadium battery manufacturers

Published: 09 December 2019

– Vanadium is essential for renewables in a circular economy

Published: 05 September 2019

– UK battery storage fleet plays pivotal role in power cut response

Published: 13 August 2019

– USTDA backs 150MW solar-plus-wind-plus-storage project in Zambia

Published: 13 August 2019

– ‘Cheaper Than a Peaker’: NextEra Inks Massive Wind+Solar+Storage Deal in Oklahoma

Published: 31 July 2019

– Battery storage companies set $1.4B record in venture capital funding: Report

Published: 31 July 2019

– 10 winning energy storage startups ready to disrupt the industry in 2019

Published: 01 April 2019

– China Energy Storage Market Size By Deployment

Published: 01 April 2019

– Florida Power & Light’s Huge Solar-Plus-Storage System the ‘New Norm’ for Utilities

Published: 01 April 2019

– The solar plus storage must flow

Published: 18 December 2018

– Initiating Redox Flow Batteries into the U.S. Wholesale Power Market

Published: 18 December 2018

– Eskom’s flagship battery energy storage systems (BESS) project

Published: 02 November 2018

– VRB Energy Commissions 3MW 12MWh Vanadium Redox Battery Energy Storage System (VRB-ESS®) in Phase 1 of the Hubei Zaoyang 10MW 40MWh Utility-Scale Solar and Storage Integration Demonstration Project

Published: 02 November 2018

– Long time coming

Published: 07 October 2018

– The World Bank Group has committed $1 billion to a new global programme to accelerate investments in battery storage for energy systems in developing and middle-income countries.

Published: 28 September 2018

– Solar With Batteries Cheaper Than Gas in Parts of U.S. Southwest

Published: 20 September 2018

– Massachusetts Deploys Utility-Scale Energy Storage

Published: 20 September 2018

– Amid steady battery growth, Fluence sets sights on market share, transmission assets

Published: 20 September 2018

– UK contributes to $500mn South African energy storage project

Published: 03 September 2018

– Siemens Gamesa tests vanadium redox flow battery at its La Plana test site in Spain

Published: 02 July 2018

– Long time coming

Published: 02 July 2018

– NV Energy’s portfolio of solar and solar-plus-storage takes the low-price competition up a notch.

Published: 02 July 2018

– 5 things utilities should consider for energy storage

Published: 02 July 2018

– Big Battery Boom Hits Another Roadblock: Fire-Fearing Cities

Published: 23 May 2018

– New Jersey passes bills for 2 GW storage target

Published: 25 April 2018

– UET to install flow battery on one of the San Juan Islands

Published: 20 April 2018

– Next phase for Chattanooga’s smart grid: An Airport Microgrid

Published: 16 April 2018

– Batteries for rent: Younicos launches energy-storage-as-a-service

Published: 19 March 2018

– PG&E Must Solicit Energy Storage and DERs to Replace 3 Existing Gas Plants

Published: 24 January 2018

– See how this 20-foot battery can help reduce energy use during peak demand, and prepare for power outages

Published: 15 December 2017

– Vanadium Flow Batteries for Cost-Effective Energy Storage: An Inteview with Angelo D’Anzi, CTO of StorEn Technologies

Published: 15 December 2017

– South Africa assesses battery energy storage prospects

Published: 15 December 2017

– Pu Neng Wins Contract for the Largest Vanadium Flow Battery in China

Published: 01 November 2017

– It’s Big and Long-Lived, and It Won’t Catch Fire: The Vanadium Redox-?Flow Battery – IEEE Spectrum

Published: 26 October 2017

– YOUNICOS BRINGS REDOX-FLOW BATTERY TO SINGAPORE

Published: 23 October 2017

– SA weighs market opportunities as utility-scale battery storage prospects improve

Published: 14 October 2017

– Stacked Benefits: Comprehensively Valuing Battery Storage in California

Published: 05 October 2017

– ELECTRICITY STORAGE AND RENEWABLES: COSTS AND MARKETS TO 2030

Published: 05 October 2017

– A revolutionary battery by Belenos

Published: 30 September 2017

– As batteries make power play, South Africa mulls market participation

Published: 10 August 2017

– Vanitec Hosts Vanadium Energy Storage Meeting

Published: 17 July 2017

– Battery storage: power of good can flow in SA

Published: 30 June 2017

– The Race to Build a Better Battery for Storing Power

Published: 13 June 2017

– Battery storage: The next disruptive technology in the power sector

Published: 06 June 2017

– Bushveld Energy CEO, Mikhail Nikomarov, presenting on valuing energy storage at Power & Electricity World Africa in Sandton

Published: 29 March 2017

– Energy Storage Markets are Charging up……

Published: 15 March 2017

– Microgrids on the March: Utilities Are Building Out New Business Models to Make Islanding Work

Published: 17 February 2017

– 2016: A ‘transitional year for storage,’ industry set to break records

Published: 01 February 2017

– Vanadium to Alleviate Africa’s Energy Challenges

Published: 01 February 2017

– Vanadium-Flow Batteries: Breakthrough

Published: 19 December 2016

– Bushveld Energy upbeat about IRP

Published: 19 December 2016

– CEF Energy Storage Impact

Published: 07 November 2016

– U.S. Navy Selects UET to Provide Energy Storage-Based Resiliency for Naval Base

Published: 12 October 2016

– New York City Sets the First Citywide Energy Storage Target

Published: 27 September 2016

– The Evolution of Battery Technology

Published: 22 June 2016

– Energy Storage Gets Some Love From the White House

Published: 17 June 2016

– SA’s top eight industries of the future

Published: 14 June 2016

– Bushveld Energy signs Cooperation Agreement with South Africa’s Industrial Development Corporation

Published: 13 June 2016

– Massive 800 MegaWatt-hour Battery to Be Deployed in China

Published: 05 June 2016

– How to determine meaningful, comparable cost of energy storage

Published: 21 March 2016

– US Energy Storage Market Grew 243% in 2015, Largest Year on Record

Published: 03 March 2016

– N America’s infant vanadium-redox flow battery market looking for a champion

Published: 24 February 2016

– Japan’s HEPCO, SEI kick off 15-MW battery system verification

Published: 25 January 2016

– Distributed batteries offer value far beyond demand-charge reduction.

Published: 14 October 2015

– Value of battery-backed solar in California: 25 cents per kilowatt-hour.

Published: 04 September 2015

– SunEdison buying Imergy batteries for microgrids in rural India.

Published: 26 August 2015

– Citigroup report: 240 GW global battery storage market by 2030.

Published: 05 February 2015

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