This report describes the process of designing, constructing and commissioning the co-located PV and vanadium redox flow battery project located in Port Pirie, South Australia.
Report extract
The report provides a description of the innovative system architecture that was developed for the project. Combining PV to battery direct DC coupling and Vanadium Flow Batteries (VFBs) had not been done before in Australia or globally.
The project demonstrated that VFBs and PV DC couples systems could be integrated successfully. The project team developed the key design and development knowledge required to create such a system. Challenges were overcome in electrical and control software engineering as well as in production and supply chain management for the delivery of the system. Installation and commissioning on site brought DC coupling systems from theory to practice, resulting in a renewable energy asset that meets the requirements for commercial trading and the supply of ancillary services on the South Australia grid.
